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THE FOX HUNT A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America

By Mohammed al Samawi

US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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The story of an improbable escape as riveting as the best page- turning thrillers, THE FOX HUNT reminds us that goodness and decency can triumph in the darkest circumstances.

Born in Sana’a, Yemen to a pair of doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a Mohammed al Samawi works for the International Center for Religion devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But and Diplomacy as a Regional Project Coordinator. THE FOX HUNT is when he was 21, he secretly read a copy of the Bible and what he read cast his first book. doubt on everything he’d previously believed. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media and at conferences, Mohammed made it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen. Praise for THE FOX HUNT:

“Nail-bitingly suspenseful… Al Samawi’s ultimate escape is inspiring, as When he began to receive death threats, Mohammed fled to the southern port city of Aden. As gunfire and grenades exploded throughout the city, is his determination to continue to work for international peace and Mohammed desperately appealed to his contacts on Facebook. understanding. Illuminating and essential reading.” Miraculously, a handful of people he barely knew responded. Over – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW thirteen days, four ordinary young people worked across six technology platforms and ten time zones to save this innocent young man trapped “Compelling… Powerful.… A refugee’s memoir about hope, fear, luck, between deadly forces— rebel fighters from the north and Al Qaeda and the devotion of people to causes larger than themselves.” – Kirkus operatives from the south.

THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND My Tale of Madness and Recovery

By Dr. Barbara Lipska & Elaine McArdle

US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. Dr. Barbara Lipska is the director of the human brain bank at the In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of National Institute of Mental Health. mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist and lawyer who for brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began twenty years has been writing for newspapers and magazines. shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after Praise for THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she MIND: remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. “A harrowing, intimately candid survivor's journey.” – Kirkus In THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND, Lipska describes her extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and "[A] fast-paced memoir...exhilarating." – Publishers Weekly brain. She tells what it is like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone. "[Lipska’s] story conveys deep understanding about the brain and how disease, injury, and age can change our very selves." – Booklist

CAN’T HELP MYSELF Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist

By Meredith Goldstein

US publisher: Grand Central / Hachette (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you’re not sure what you’re doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe’s “Love Letters” column.

Every day, The Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated readers. They look to her for wisdom on all matters of the heart- how to cope with dating fatigue and infidelity, work romances, tired marriages, true love, and true loss. In her column, she has it all figured out, but in her real life she is a lot less certain. Whether it’s her own reservations about the traditional path of marriage and family, her difficulty finding someone she truly connects with, or the evolution of her friendships as her friends start to have their own families, Meredith finds herself looking for insight, just Praise for CAN’T HELP MYSELF: like her readers. As she searches for responses to their concerns, she’s surprised to discover answers to her own. But it’s after her mother is "A witty, entertaining memoir [that offers] guidance on the precarious diagnosed with cancer that she truly realizes how special her Love Letters integration of life and love." – Kirkus community is, how this column has enriched her life as much, if not more than, it has for its readers. "The book's strength is the way Goldstein shows the blurring of personal and professional boundaries from the unique perspective of an advice CAN’T HELP MYSELF is the extraordinary (and often hilarious) story columnist.... her story of coping with her mother's illness is moving and of a single woman navigating her mercurial love life, and moving and tenderly wrought." ― Publishers Weekly poignant portrait of an amazing community of big-hearted, love-seeking allies. "CAN'T HELP MYSELF is everything we need right now. Meredith is hilarious, smart, and—as you will learn—gives excellent advice without Meredith Goldstein Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and judgment. Every page is a combination of relatable, funny, cringeworthy, entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe. In 2009, she began writing and helpful. This book is evidence that none of us is alone, ever." their column Love Letters. Meredith was raised in Maryland and lives in ― Alyssa Mastromonaco, New York Times bestselling author Boston.

THE ROAD TO DAWN Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War

By Jared Brock

US publisher: Public Affairs (North American rights) To publish: May 2018

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THE ROAD TO DAWN is the sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials.

THE ROAD TO DAWN tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson—a dynamic, driven man with exceptional intelligence and unyielding principles, who overcame incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and catapulted to international fame, though his story has been lost to history. Until now. Jared Brock is the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and exploitation, THE ROAD TO DAWN chronicles Henson's forty-two years spent in Jared Brock speaks regularly at universities and churches throughout the bondage and his eventual escape with his wife and four young children, United States and Canada. He is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully carrying the youngest two on his broken shoulders for 600 miles, and his writing has also appeared in Esquire, Huffington Post, eventually settling with his family as a free man across the border in TODAY.com, and Writers Digest. Canada. Once there, Henson rescued 118 more slaves, including his own brother, and purchased land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad, a 500-person freeman settlement Praise for THE ROAD TO DAWN: called Dawn. "Jared Brock's biography of Josiah Henson is an impressive effort to THE ROAD TO DAWN retraces Henson's path from slavery to piece together the story of a man nearly lost to history and broken by freedom and restores a hero of the abolitionist movement to his rightful slavery. The Road to Dawn is sure to become required reading in the place in history. archives of African American history." – Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African

American History and Culture

GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

By Ndaba Mandela

US publisher: Hachette (North American rights) To publish: June 2018

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The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela’s life through the eyes of a child who was raised by him, Ndaba Mandela chronicles his unforgettable life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.

In a story that has never been told, Nelson Mandela steered the author from his reckless youth to his maturation into a principled adulthood—all Ndaba Mandela is the grandson of Nelson Mandela. He is the co- as an often-single parent in his years after political imprisonment and founder and co-chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation, an through his landmark presidency of South Africa. On a scale both organization dedicated to promoting a positive image of Africa around intimate (detailing private, never-heard moments) and epic (with the the world and to increasing its potential for growth in the areas of sweep of history and birth of a nation happening before the reader’s eyes), education, employment and international corporate alliances. Ndaba the book will detail the gripping arc of Ndaba’s own extraordinary serves as an executive director for UN AIDS, which seeks to end journey, which mirrors that of South Africa’s—from the segregated discrimination around HIV/AIDS. He is also the Founder of the Soweto ghettos into which he was born, to the presidential mansion in Mandela Project, and is part of the team behind the worldwide which he grew up, and the challenged times in which he lives now. celebrations to mark the Nelson Mandela Centenary in 2018.

GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN is, at day’s end, a message of unlocking the power within each of us—the cautionary tale of a life that could go one way or the other, depending upon the intervention of a caring soul; and the ability, and awesome power, of an individual life to serve as a catalyst for change.

THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK

By Jonathan Santlofer

US publisher: Penguin Books (North American rights) To publish: July 2018

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"Wrenching, heartbreaking, intense and emotional… I think the world is a better place with this book in it.” – Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

A moving, page-turning chronicle of a husband's loss and the story of a loving, modern marriage.

On a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife, Joy, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 91 call, an ambulance race across Manhattan, and hours pacing in a hospital waiting room, a doctor finally delivers the fateful news. Consumed by grief, Jonathan desperately tries to pursue life as he always had--writing, social engagements, and working on his art--but finds it nearly impossible to admit his deep feelings of loss to anyone, not even his to Praise for THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK: beloved daughter, Doria, or to himself. "Jonathan Santlofer’s stunning The Widower’s Notebook raises all the As Jonathan grieves and heals, he tries to unravel what happened to Joy blinds on immense and sudden loss, bringing light to all its dark a journey that will take him nearly two years. corners… A true gift." – Megan Abbott

Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, TH "This is deeply moving…beautifully written and modulated, with a WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is a portrait of a marriage, an account dollop of droll, black humor. It is such an achievement, like running of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your uphill against a strong wind.” – Joyce Carol Oates spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love. "[A]n intimate, honest, heart-wrenching, and at times even funny account of grieving as well as the memoir of long, satisfying, loving Jonathan Santlofer is the previous author of five novels: The Death marriage. This is an important and welcome addition to the literature of Artist, Color Blind, The Killing Art, The Murder Notebook, and loss and grief…” – Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of How the Anatomy of Fear. THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is his first work of nonfiction. García Girls Lost Their Accents and Saving the World

THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR Napoleon on Elba from Escape to Exile

By Mark Braude

US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) To publish: October 2018

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Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude’s THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba.

In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, if Europe’s rulers had had their way, and Napoleon What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history’s most for a time seemed resigned to a quiet retirement in this idyllic setting. But consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic persona. By putting this sliver of Napoleon’s life under the microscope, ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return Braude depicts him in all his glory and hubris: vanquished, fallible, and, to France and to power. After ten months of exile, he escaped Elba with yet, irrepressible. The Invisible Emperor is both a riveting story and an just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched original examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace–all without firing a shot. Not ideas can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality. long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Mark Braude is the author of Making Monte Carlo: A History of Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in granular Speculation and Spectacle. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Los detail and with novelistic relish, offering sharp new insights into a largely Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, and other publications. overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon’s tragically noble official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let “Boney” slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise who was twenty-two to Napoleon’s forty-four, at the time of his abdication.

THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE William S. Burroughs & the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Julie Yip-Williams By Casey Rae US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: January 2019 US publisher: University of Texas Press (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Rights sold: Brazil (Intrinseca) Holland (HarperCollins Holland) THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM is poised to be the definitive Korea (Tornado) biography of a Beat-era legend, whose legacy carries into present- Poland (Muza) day rock music. UK/Commonwealth (Transworld)

William S. Burroughs is well known as a pivotal writer of the beat Like Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air, Julie- generation, but his lasting and critical influence on rock music and its Yip Williams was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 37, just formative musicians is a story that hasn’t been told. Burroughs altered the when she had attained tremendous fulfillment in both her destinies of an astounding array of musicians in the latter half of the 20th professional and personal lives, with her job as a corporate lawyer, century—such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith, and her loving marriage to another successful lawyer, and her two Kurt Cobain, among many others—and Casey Rae has outlined a young daughters. compelling case for Burroughs’ powerful impression on rock music, which will be supported by interviews, research, and original reporting. Julie began a blog titled My Cancer-Fighting Journey (julieyipwilliams. wordpress.com) after her diagnosis and hasn’t stopped writing since, Casey Rae has written op-eds for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, journaling her every devastating emotion and thought in the wake of her Billboard, and The Hill, among other publications, and has appeared on diagnosis, and preparing her family and friends for the inevitable...for NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and SiriusXM. He teaches courses on four years. music at Georgetown University and Berklee College of Music in Boston. He’s a sought after speaker who’s given talks at SXSW, Consumer Julie doesn’t have much use for sentimentality. Her memoir is as Electronics Showcase, CMJ, Aspen Institute, and on the university circuit unflinching as it is moving and inspirational – at its heart, it’s about living at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Columbia University, to the fullest and most meaningful capacity we can. NYU and NYU Law, University of California, Berkeley Law School, McGill University, University of Toronto, and many other institutions. Of Chinese descent and born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams was an attorney, a mother (of Mia and Isabelle), a wife (of Josh Williams) and the author of the blog, My Cancer-Fighting Journey.

ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME SERVING THE SERVANT A Family’s Inheritance of War Reflections on Kurt Cobain

By Mieke Eerkens By Danny Goldberg

US publisher: Picador (North American rights) US publisher: Ecco (North American rights) To publish: February 2019 To publish: April 2019

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in May 2018 Rights sold: France (Editions Kero) Rights sold: Holland (De Geus) Italy (HarperCollins Italy) Poland (Agora) UK/Commonwealth (Trapeze/Orion) *Pending offers in Germany and Poland A brilliant and heartrending World War II memoir by Dutch- American author Mieke Eerkens, on par with Laura Hillenbrand’s In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to work Unbroken and Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes. with a young, brash musician named Kurt Cobain. He had no idea that 25 years later, Kurt would become a pop-culture icon in the ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is an untold World War II story that same stratosphere as John Lennon, Michael Jackson, and Elvis challenges our perception of victim and perpetrator, and blurs the lines of Presley. war. In March 1942, a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies was interned, like a hundred thousand other Dutch civilians, in a Japanese In SERVING THE SERVANT, Danny Goldberg masterfully explores concentration camp doing hard labor for three years, until the atomic what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a bombings caused the Japanese to surrender. Meanwhile, across the globe, generation who came after Kurt died. After a quarter of a century, Danny Dutch police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at the remains far more interested in Kurt’s brilliance than his struggles, his war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers compassion more than his angst, and most deeply in a legacy that has in the Netherlands. It was the post-war period of reckoning, the so-called lasted decades longer than his career or his life did. “hatchet day” where Nazi collaborators were tortured in the same concentration camps where the Jews had just been liberated from. Danny further articulates how Kurt’s mastery of media allowed him to connect deeply with his fans in a way that few musicians have before or Many years later, the boy and girl met as adults, and married and had since. Besides his prodigious artistry, Kurt had an uncanny ability to children. The author is one of these children, and ALL SHIPS synthesize all aspects of the music business—he was the brand manager FOLLOW ME is her remarkable memoir of the inheritance of war. of the ultimate anti-brand band. Ahead of his time politically, Kurt gave voice to a disaffected generation’s unarticulated progressivism that resonates still today with younger and younger generations. Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension’ Writers

Program. Her work has appeared in various places such as The Atlantic, Danny Goldberg is currently President and Owner of Gold Village Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Pank, and Guernica. Entertainment, an artist management company.

THE PARANOID OPTIMIST YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE How to Stay Vigilant, Keep Things Positive, and Lead A Self-Mythologizing Memoir Your Organization Through Constant Change By Parker Posey By Risto Siilasmaa US publisher: Blue Rider Press / Penguin (North American rights) US publisher: McGraw-Hill (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in June 2018 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Virago/Little, Brown UK) Rights sold: Finland (Tammi) Holland (Brandt) From the "Queen of the Indies" Parker Posey comes an irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir full of personal stories, whimsical A page-turning narrative of dynamic leadership and daring how-tos, recipes, and eccentric illustrations. reinvention fused with actionable takeaways, THE PARANOID OPTIMIST is the next must-read book for every entrepreneur, Parker Posey is a singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny team leader, and executive. personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed and THE PARANOID OPTIMIST will tell the compelling, high-stakes Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail. story chronicling how a 45-year-old Risto Siilasmaa found himself at the helm of the fabled Nokia in 2012, only to discover that, despite rosy With remarkable candor and a refreshing perspective on life in the internal projections, the company was headed straight for an iceberg. spotlight, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and the realities of its accompanying fame. She explores her relationships with The tactics and strategies that Risto and his team implemented to right the brilliant directors like Christopher Guest and Woody Allen. A funny and ship, turn Nokia around, and steer it toward dazzlingly success—the value authentic childhood set Posey up for a life of creating and entertaining, of the company has increased 20 times since 2012—are the ones he will which not only extends to acting but to the craft of pottery, sewing, share in this stunning new book. These tactics are the tenets of what Risto collage, yoga and cooking, all of which readers will find in this highly aptly calls "entrepreneurial leadership." In an era of disruption and rapid entertaining book. change, it's more important than ever to be a paranoid optimist, a leader who visualizes and plans for success but who remains hyper-vigilant no For fans of Nora Ephron's spot-on commentary, Jenny Lawson's matter how high stock value may rise. absurdly comical foibles, Amy Sedaris's unexpectedly hilarious quips, and Carrie Brownstein's cool-girl appeal, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE Risto Siilasmaa is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia proves Posey has a voice that will enchant fans and newcomers alike. Corporation and has led the company in one of the most successful corporate transformations ever. THE PARANOID OPTIMIST is his Parker Posey is currently playing Dr. Smith in Netflix's remake of Lost in first book. Space.

HOUSE OF STICKS DID I DO GOOD? A Memoir By Owen Benjamin By Ly Tran US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) US publisher: Scribner (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Up-and-coming comedian Owen Benjamin’s DID I DO GOOD? Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful story about the will appeal to readers of Aziz Ansari’s Modern Love and Amy immigrant experience that evokes The Glass Castle. Schumer’s The Girl with the Lower-Back Tattoo!

Ly Tran and her three brothers were born in the Mekong Delta region of Owen Benjamin is your everyman. He’s good at following directions, Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ly and her family emigrated to enjoys putting his body and mind through unnecessary pain, and loves New York City. They arrived in February 1993, leaving rice paddies, naps and high fives. He’s aggressive and determined, and if he’d been mango trees, and a hut for a towering building in Brooklyn. Ly had her brought up in a different setting he’d probably be working in a lumber first job in America at the age of four, doing sweatshop labor at home yard moving heavy things or playing third string tight end in the with her family. In time, she and her mother eventually opened up their Canadian Football league. own nail salon. In other words, Owen’s not a PhD or a personal relations counselor; he’s It was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to a guy like any other guy–just a hell of a lot funnier. In DID I DO understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, GOOD? he’ll use wit and historical evidence to take on the big, age-old they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's brothers questions: Why do men with caring girlfriends think their single lives in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the Mekong to would look like AXE Bodyspray commercials? Why do women fantasize avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was sold to a about Ted Bundy types and not the nice guy at H&R Block? And, why Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs. doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

HOUSE OF STICKS is in part about poverty and getting by, and DID I DO GOOD? will be as practical and constructive as Aziz hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young immigrant, the Ansari’s Modern Love; as weird and sincere as Rob Delaney’s Rob Delaney; obstacles she faced as a female in her family and in Brooklyn, she reveals as sensitive as Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me; as personal as Justin the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her harsh reality, Halpern’s I Suck At Girls; and as manly as Nick Offerman’s Paddle Your and the faith that carried her through. Own Canoe.

Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Owen Benjamin is a comedian and actor. He’s performed his unique Writing and Linguistics. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony stand-up sets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Fellowship and an Arts Omi residence. Leno, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and Comedy Central Presents: Owen Benjamin. DID I DO GOOD? is his first book.

LIFE IN THEORY PENCE

By Toph Eggers By Tom LoBianco

US publisher: Crown (North American rights) US publisher: Dey Street (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in Fall 2018

Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency PENCE will be the first book on the man who sits just inches away from becoming the next president of the United States. Rights sold: Germany (Piper) Holland (Signatuur) Few presidents before Donald Trump have been so close to Italy (Giunti) impeachment from the very start of their administration. And because of UK / Commonwealth (Oneworld) that, no other vice president has been as close to taking control of the Oval Office as early as Mike Pence. Toph Eggers, the younger brother of Dave Eggers who was prominently featured in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering This book will unearth new, important and fascinating anecdotes about Genius, is now thirty-three years old. LIFE IN THEORY is his Pence’s faith, his relationship with Karen Pence, his bizarre relationship candid memoir of the surreal trajectory of his life and the toll of with Trump, his deeply buried personality, his ascent to power under the being defined by a persona he did not create. wing of John Boehner and his plans for America and his own presidency. More importantly, it will profile Pence in a thoughtful, meticulously The publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Toph’s reported narrative that peels away at the carefully honed public image he older brother Dave had profound consequences Toph could not have has built around himself. It will closely examine the inherent tension and foreseen. It was required reading for his freshman class at college, hypocrisies of a politician who is driven in equal parts by faith and students came to interview him “for extra credit.” A girlfriend broke it ambition, but often lets that ambition overtake his principles. PENCE off with him on the advice of her therapist. What followed is the draws heavily on the expertise of its author to cut to the core of one of trajectory of a vulnerable young man who increasingly steeled himself the nation’s most mysterious politicians. against any pain. Tom LoBianco is a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He In many ways, LIFE IN THEORY fills a gap in the world of memoirs. has covered Mike Pence from his first campaign rally for governor in Toph’s memoir reaches out to the fans of those book with a candor Pence’s native Columbus, Indiana to his return to Washington to take the rarely found in memoirs by men. oval office.

Toph Eggers is a writer, director, and screenwriter. LIFE IN THEORY is his first book.

THE EQUIVALENTS TAKE CARE The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution By Mark Bertolini

By Maggie Doherty US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 TAKE CARE is a vital new work of nonfiction by Mark Bertolini, the innovative and courageous CEO of Aetna, one of the world’s THE EQUIVALENTS will tell the moving and momentous story of largest health insurers. TAKE CARE will achieve for human the first all-women’s artist colony, at the Radcliffe Institute in the wellness what Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In achieved for women in early 1960s, where the writer Tillie Olsen, poets Maxine Kumin and the workplace. Anne Sexton, painter Barbara Swan, and sculptor Marianna Pineda all became friends, collaborators, and conspirators. Since becoming CEO of Aetna in 2010, Mark Bertolini has emerged as a preeminent public intellectual, a coveted media commentator and guest All the five Equivalents were wives and mothers who refused the speaker, and a corporate and social visionary. Mark is effecting important domestic limitations that those fixed Mad Men-era identities implied. First changes in how we treat and take care of ourselves, our co-workers, our and foremost, these women were artists who, given money and rooms in friends, family members, and neighbors. His philosophy reflects his own which to write and think, articulated in prose, sculpture, poetry, paint— extraordinarily trying, painful, and in many ways karmic wellness journey, and above all in their friendships—what so many of their silenced sisters which for the first time he will lay out in TAKE CARE. could not. And it was the all-too-rare community at Radcliffe that assured their ascendancy and continuing relevance. Mark will share the lessons he learned while also formulating a compelling, much-needed, and comprehensive strategy for improving the THE EQUIVALENTS will introduce readers to these five women as lives of millions of Americans—and people worldwide—by changing the they worked and suffered in isolation, narrate vividly how they entered the way we think about, pursue, and protect health. Mark will argue that our Radcliffe Institute and why it changed their personal and professional most basic assumptions about health care are deeply flawed, and that lives, and trace their trajectories back into the wider world as their careers failure has led to our country’s epidemic rates of opiate addiction, took off, their friendships frayed, and the women’s liberation movement obesity, type 2 diabetes, and countless other debilitating physical and reached a fever pitch. In its combination of the personal and the political, psychiatric disorders and diseases. In TAKE CARE, Mark’s keen the story of these five women and the history of the American woman, observations and analysis will offer a new way forward.

Maggie Doherty is a historian, literary scholar, and critic. She received Mark Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a her BA from Yale University and her PhD in English from Harvard Fortune 50 diversified international health care benefits company with University. Her writing has appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, the over $60 billion in 2015 revenue. Boston Review, n+1, and the Times Literary Supplement.

THE GLASS OF FASHION THIS REALLY HAPPENED A Lifetime of Lessons in Style A Memoir

By Hamish Bowles By Isaac Mizrahi

US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) US publisher: Flatiron Books (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

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Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Little, Brown UK) A memoir from the multitalented and omnipresent Isaac Mizrahi, a household name in the fashion world for over two decades. Mixing encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Hamish Bowles brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history Famed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi’s memoir THIS REALLY collide. HAPPENED weaves together recollections, pronouncements, opinion, and anecdotes that at once entertain and enlighten. Hamish Bowles began his storied fashion career by creating a makeshift fontange at age four. He then won a British Vogue talent contest at age From Isaac’s tortuous childhood in an Orthodox community of fourteen, and went on to become the youngest fashion director ever at Brooklyn to his adolescence spent on the dance floor at Studio 54, his Harpers & Queen at age twenty-two. Now International Editor at Large time at Parsons School of Design to the heady 1990s, when his friends at Vogue, THE GLASS OF FASHION is Hamish’s collection of the and muses, supermodels such as Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and equivalent of four PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and Naomi Campbell ruled the runway, Isaac tells the story of coming into architecture. his own and becoming a fashion celebrity, all with his beloved wit and voice. In THE GLASS OF FASHION, Hamish will take the reader on an international journey narrated through a pastiche of people, places, Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and personal moments, and professional opinion. Wielding his erudite, yet creative director of Xcel Brands. He is best known for his eponymous playful writing, Hamish keenly explores the spaces between style, fashion, fashion lines. and culture. Not just for fashion insiders, this is a book aimed for the culturally curious, creatively ambitious, and style obsessed—from a man who has learned from the most significant tastemakers of the last several decades.

Hamish Bowles has been the editor-at-large for Vogue since 1995.

AUGUST WILSON I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND The Kiln in Which He Was Fired By Jessica Craig-Martin By Patti Hartigan US publisher: Spiegel & Grau (World English rights) US publisher: 37 Ink (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019

Famed photographer Jessica Craig-Martin chronicled New York The first and fully authorized biography of August Wilson by City’s society gatherings (uptown and downtown) for fifteen years. veteran theater critic, Patti Hartigan, who has covered August Like Marilyn Minter, Lauren Greenfield, and Nan Goldin, Jessica Wilson for three decades. has used her lens to burst the bubbles of fashion, wealth, and social

Playwright August Wilson’s story begins with his birth in a two-room status. tenement in Pittsburgh. Wilson’s mother, Daisy, a daughter of sharecroppers, was a spirited and disciplined mother who made time A stealth, gimlet-eyed sociologist masquerading as a party photographer to play dodgeball and baseball with her children. Wilson’s father, whose work appears in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, German-born, left the family when he was a young boy. These two The Whitney, The New Museum, The Saatchi Collection, among others, themes of abandonment and a loving, but strict mother play out in Jessica’s visual talent for observing and documenting human behavior Wilson’s life and art. and society is matched equally by her talents as a writer. In her memoir, she turns the lens on herself, and recounts a latchkey bohemian Jazz saved him and by the time he was 37, Wilson was accepted by childhood in the 1970s as the precocious offspring of two free spirited the National Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater artists (her father is the acclaimed painter Sir Michael Craig Martin). Her Center. Soon, his plays were produced on Broadway and he was account of growing up between London and New York’s Soho is a vivid receiving Pulitzers and Tonys. Most important, Wilson changed social and cultural history of 70s and 80s bohemia. American theater and culture. He set out to write a series of plays chronicling the experience of African Americans in the 20th Century, She offers a snapshot of a now almost mythic moment in New York City and his American Century Cycle is the true attempt at an American history that she witnessed almost by accident, from selling seafood to epic in the vein of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. It is an unprecedented Jean Michel Basquiat in the early days of Dean & Deluca to working for achievement. But demons bubbled underneath this Anna Wintour as an assistant at British Vogue. Her social satire follows in achievement. Hartigan tells a fascinating, complicated, page-turning the footsteps of Nora Ephron and Fran Liebowitz, barbed yet deeply biography of extravagant success, internal vulnerability and an ability human; this is the story of a clever yet self-doubting young woman trying to grow. to find her place in the world with little adult instruction or supervision.

Patti Hartigan was a fellow at the Pew Charitable Trust National Jessica Craig-Martin is a photographer whose work appears in Arts Journalism Program and won the Paul Tobenkin Award from permanent collections. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New Columbia University’s School of Journalism. York, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

LAUGH LINES IF YOU LOVE ME Forty Years of Making Funny People Funnier A Mother’s Memoir of a Daughter’s Addiction

By Alan Zweibel By Maureen Cavanagh

US publisher: Henry Holt (North American rights) US publisher: Abrams (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Writing with a strikingly original voice and rhythm, and appealing On the strength of that one joke, Lorne Michaels brought 25-year-old to readers of David Sheff’s bestselling BEAUTIFUL BOY, Maureen Alan Zweibel on to the inaugural comedy writing staff of Saturday tells the story of her daughter Katie’s addiction to heroin, and the Night Live in 1975, a TV show that not only changed the course of world-turned-upside-down in which the family finds itself during comedy history, but also launched Alan’s stratospheric comedy the snowy Massachusetts winter of 2015, from the shock of discovery writing career that has lasted for more than forty years. to the thumping anguish of reality.

In LAUGH LINES: FORTY YEARS OF MAKING FUNNY What Maureen realizes over the course of this deeply affecting and PEOPLE FUNNIER, Zweibel takes the reader on a tour of the cultural inspirational book is that even while she becomes an expert on getting history of the past forty years of comedy and, in particular, comedy countless men and women into detox and treatment centers, she remains writing, using his personal experience as someone who had to endlessly powerless to save her own daughter. twist, tweak and contort himself to not only understand what comedy audiences were looking for, but to always be on the cutting edge. IF YOU LOVE ME gets to the essence of the newsworthy topic of opioid addiction—an American epidemic deadlier than the AIDS crisis at Appealing to fans of Judd Apatow’s Sick In the Head and Billy its height—and gives it the human story, dramatic and relatable, that it Crystal’s Still Foolin ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going and Where the Hell needs and deserves to effect change. Are My Keys?, Zweibel’s hilarious trip down comedy memory lane demystifies the life of a working comedy writer (explaining the day-to-day in writer’s rooms, for example) not just through his own experience, but With the style, determination, and sharp tongue of mother-hero Joy also through detailed interviews with such friends and legends as Carl Mangano in the David O. Russell film JOY, Maureen starts a peer-to- Reiner, Larry David, Billy Crystal, Judd Apatow, and others. peer online support group to connect families with one another and creates a non-profit that secures sober-living spaces for those in recovery. Magnolia New Beginnings, which Maureen runs to this day, has granted Alan Zweibel is a TV writer, playwright, bestselling author, and an over 40 scholarships and boasts over 15,000 members nationwide. original Saturday Night Live writer. He has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the Maureen Cavanagh is a treatment advocate and the founder of stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Magnolia New Beginnings, a peer-to-peer network and non-profit to and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal. assist those or their loved ones affected by substance use disorder.

WATCH ME EAT THIS SANDWICH THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

By Ben Folds By Alexander Nemerov

US publisher: Ballantine (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (S&S Australia) THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER will take readers on The debut book project from singer-songwriter Ben Folds that will a cinematic tour of eleven eventful days in the early artistic life of broadly appeal to not only his millions of fans, but also readers of Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011). The narrative will follow this Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and Nick Hornby. astonishingly self-possessed, shrewd, and vibrant heroine as she navigates the art world. For the past 23 years, Ben Folds has been revered as an influential and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER will be about being trio, Ben Folds Five, producing such evocative hits as the breakthrough young and being an artist, evoking the same romantic feeling for readers indie phenomenon “Brick,” the hilarious “Battle of Who Could Care as Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Anatole Broyard’s When Kafka Was the Rage. Less,” the self-mocking “Rocking the Suburbs,” and the perennial But not only will Alex craft the eleven chapters to serve as snapshots of romantic hit “The Luckiest,” among others. Although Ben’s genre- days in Frankenthaler’s life, he will also focus them to consider different bending music includes bestselling collaborations with icon William dimensions of the creative life, what it means to be a young artist, Shatner, esteemed writers Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman, and such reveling in the peculiar joys and sorrows of devoting oneself wholly to musical luminaries as Regina Spektor, Amanda Palmer, Sara Bareilles, art. In Chapter Two, “Revelation,” Frankenthaler will ride arm and arm Kesha and others, Ben is best known to his millions of fans as a rock anti- in an elevator with her new boyfriend, preeminent art critic Clement hero, a shrewd observer and passionate storyteller writing with humor, Greenberg, to see the new show of Greenberg’s finest discovery— vulnerability and candor. Jackson Pollock—initiating Frankenthaler’s transfiguration as the wide canvases suddenly open new creative vistas in her mind. In Chapter In WATCH ME EAT THIS SANDWICH, Ben takes the astute Eight, “Self-Promotion,” Frankenthaler will take control of her public reflections that has made his songs so memorable to create a hilarious, image on May 13, 1957 by appearing in Life magazine, striking that insightful, semi-autobiographical collection of interrelated stories that will delicate balance of keeping her true self hidden even while advertising appeal to literary readers and his fans. herself and her art.

Ben Folds is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. Before he went solo, Alexander Nemerov is a professor at Stanford. THE DAYS OF Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben HELEN FRANKENTHALER is his first book. Folds Five from 1995 to 2000.

RECESS REBEL TO AMERICA A Memoir of Education A Memoir of an Uprising

By Tony Wagner By Kareem “Tef Poe” Jackson

US publisher: Viking (World English rights) US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Spring 2020

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Evoking Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man, education expert Tony REBEL TO AMERICA is the story of a young man coming of age Wagner’s memoir RECESS tells the story of his boyhood and in the beating heart of Saint Louis, Missouri. It’s a generational difficult school years, and Tony’s ultimate realization that his story about black culture between the coasts; about the clash experiences were in fact his best possible education for what he does between youths and the police; about loving families and dangerous now. gangs; about hope and hip hop and a new civil rights movement coming alive in the American Midwest. Tony Wagner has a fascinating personal history: he is a multiple high school and college dropout who has become one of the world’s top Through his story, Tef explores the history of the community from education experts. Tony wasn’t happy at all for most of his school years which he came. He delivers a rich portrait of a city divided by race. He and he felt that his most important learning experiences took place captures stories about his brothers, his ride-or-die friends, his girlfriends outside of organized education instead of inside the walls of a school. Yet, who made him into a man, the golden age of open mics in the U-City today, he travels the world, advising many of the world’s governments, loop, a legendary destination for aspiring artists, and the spirit of and keynoting at the most important international education conferences. revolution that culminated in the uprising in Ferguson and the dawn of a new black consciousness. At its heart, RECESS asks the “big questions” about schools and education, from the importance yet damaging nature of failure, to how Rapper and 2018 Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard University, Tef Poe’s much freedom students should be given, and how we can best engage work has been featured in Time, Vice, XXL, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Atlanta students by allowing them to follow their passions. Black Star, and The Source.

RECESS will appeal not only to readers of education experts like Paul Tough, Rafe Esquith and Esmé Raji Codell, but also to readers of memoirs about life and work that are truly candid—such as H is for Hawk and Lab Girl.

Tony Wagner is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. Tony’s influential and widely read books on schools and education include The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators.

UNTITLED MEMOIR UNTITLED MEMOIR

By Barry Sonnenfeld By Betsey Johnson

US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) US publisher: Viking (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 To publish: Spring 2020

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In the style of David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, comes Throughout her decades-long career, inimitable fashion designer famed film and television director (the nine feature films he’s Betsey Johnson has taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking directed have grossed over $2 billion) Barry Sonnenfeld’s hilarious, clothing at an accessible price and also running her own company wacky memoir, which also broadens out from Barry’s upbringing as while turning down multiple offers to sell. the smothered only-child of neurotic, oppressive Jewish parents in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, to recount his Betsey Johnson means different things to different generations: to older singular experiences with many of the most famous people in the gals she’s the renegade single mother who palled around with Warhol, world. Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground and built an empire from scratch. To the younger crowd she’s the designer of their The basic narrative arc will take Barry from childhood (which is prom dresses and the line of clothing at Macy’s based on the recent reminiscent of something out of a Woody Allen movie) and into early Dreamworks movie Trolls. Betsey is and has always been the adulthood in Manhattan of the ‘60s and ‘70s—up to the afternoon in quintessential designer for the odd ball, the eccentric, and the girl willing 1982 on which he had his first inkling of success: the debut (with Joel and to take risks. Ethan Coen) of Blood Simple at the New York Film Festival. Though Betsey’s public image is that of the playful, colorful iconoclast, But his stories also take you places you don’t necessarily expect to go, and her book will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what that is the key to their entertainment value and their power. It’s Barry’s it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to (sometime lengthy) asides—apparent tangents from the main story line— graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University to becoming an in which both comic delights and the surprising emotional depths of his internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. Betsey talks story are found. insightfully about Manhattan’s downtown scene in the 60s, starting her own company from scratch after designing successfully for multiple other Barry’s storytelling ability arises from both the unusual life he’s lived and companies, body image, love, divorce, single motherhood, and her bout his irrepressible perspective on it. And the breadth of his experience of with breast cancer. Her book will also include stories of her business ups Hollywood is reminiscent of the memoirs of many of the titans of the and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and finally leaving entertainment industry. her beloved New York behind for the life of a Malibu grandmother. Barry Sonnenfeld is a film and television director. Among his film Betsey has been approached by publishers about a memoir for many credits are the three Men in Black movies; the two Addams Family movies; years, but wasn’t ready to look back until now. and Get Shorty. For television he has directed and produced Pushing Daisies Betsey Johnson is an internationally renowned fashion designer. and A Series of Unfortunate Events, among many others.

THIS IS BIG BLACK AND WHITE How Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison By Marisa Meltzer Defeated Slavery

US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) By Linda Hirshman To publish: Fall 2020 US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2020 Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Chatto & Windus) Edited MS available in Spring 2020

THIS IS BIG is a charming and candid reported homage—in the The story of how two second-generation founding fathers, the style of Julie and Julia—about fashion and beauty journalist Marisa unsung heroes of American history, wouldn’t stop fighting until all Meltzer's obsession with the late, legendary Jean Nidetch, men were “forever free.” the overweight housewife from Queens, NY who in 1963 founded what would become a billion-dollar international BLACK AND WHITE will tell the interwoven stories of the iconic wellness empire: Weight Watchers. orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass and the foremost white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison by zeroing in on the almost thirty Before Oprah, Martha, and Gwyneth there was Jean Nidetch. With the years during which the two men worked side by side, and then on founding of Weight Watchers, Jean became one of the most influential different sides, to end slavery. and consequential figures of the 20th century, helping to open a Pandora's Box of possibilities and expectations for women's bodies that still By looking at these formative years—which begin when Douglass is in reverberate today. his early 20s and Garrison is in his mid-30s—Linda animates the unexplored mentor/protégée dynamic and brings clarity and depth to the THIS IS BIG will tell Jean Nidetch's unlikely, thrilling Cinderella story, evolving friendship-turned-rivalry. She also introduces a new character, from her modest childhood in Queens to her dizzying heights of fame in the aristocratic, self-righteous female abolitionist, Maria Weston Hollywood and Vegas, to her twilight years in a retirement home in Chapman, whose commitment to the cause, and hostility toward Florida. The biography will also follow Marisa Meltzer, a clear-eyed but Douglass, played a hitherto unexamined role in the movement. still hopeful journalist, through one year of Weight Watchers in the heart of New York City. She's the same age as Jean was when her life radically Linda Hirshman is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of changed—39. Marisa hopes her life and body will change, too. She will be Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women unstintingly honest about it all, in the spirit of Lindy West’s Shrill. of the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School, and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex. Marisa Meltzer is a columnist for The New York Times Styles section. She is the author of Girl Power: Feminism, Music, and Marketing in the Nineties.

CONQUERING ALEXANDER

By Elizabeth Samet

US publisher: Liveright (World English rights) To publish: Winter 2022

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CONQUERING ALEXANDER will trace the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic world conqueror, of which he is the historical original. Elizabeth aims to write a comprehensive and subversive retelling of the many different lives of Alexander to be found in history, fiction, and popular culture.

Obsessed with fame in an ancient culture where the battlefield was the surest place to win it, Alexander spent his entire adult life on campaign. During its 13 year campaign, Alexander’s army marched over 20,000 miles, through most of the regions where the US has concentrated its military energies since 2001. He was there before us.

In our present moment, so alive to the idea of “greatness,” an examination of Alexander and his myth can open a rich discussion about both the personal and national ambition to be great. Alexander’s life is the template against which those of subsequent conquerors from Julius Caesar to Genghis Khan to Napoleon have been compared. Alexander’s career, like that of Caesar, became a lesson in the dangers of a military despot. However, political and cultural trends suggest a surprising hunger for latter-day Alexanders.

An English professor at West Point, Elizabeth Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.

UPCOMING MINDFULNESS / SELF-HELP

TITLES

A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY

By Tara Button

UK publisher: Harper UK US publisher: Ten Speed Press To publish: February 2018 (UK); June 2018 (US)

Material available: Final PDF available

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As Tara Button brilliantly demonstrates in A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY, mindful curation is a lifestyle choice that will make you happier, healthier and more fulfilled spiritual as well as helping save the planet.

Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny Tara Button is the CEO and founder of Buymeonce.com. Having things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 worked in advertising for many years, she is now an active campaigner years, but we are damaging the environment at the same time. influencing manufacturers to improve their product longevity and to encourage consumers to buy once and buy well. Tara Button has become a champion of a lifestyle called “mindful curation”—a way of living in which we carefully choose each object in our lives, making sure we have the best, most classic, most pleasing and Praise for A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY: longest lasting—kettles, desks, pots & pans, scissors, coats and dresses, instead of surrounding ourselves with throwaway stuff and appliances “An excellent new book tackles happiness v consumerism, and how to with built-in obsolescence. There are 10 steps to master mindful curation achieve more of the former with less of the latter. Tara Button’s A Life and each is explained in this book, from understanding and using Less Throwaway promises a more contented way of living and rages amusingly against planned obsolescence, fast furniture, weaselly techniques to freeing yourself from external manipulations. In A LIFE advertising and cunning shop design. It also offers tips on curating and LESS THROWAWAY, Tara advocates a life that celebrates what lasts, caring for your possessions, as well as ad-blocking.” – The Sunday what is classic and what really suits a person. Times

GETTING BACK TO HAPPY Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs

By Marc and Angel Chernoff

US publisher: Tarcher Perigee (North American rights) To publish: May 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

Empowering advice for overcoming setbacks, from the authors of a wildly popular blog that's read by millions of engaged readers each month.

Through their popular blog “Marc & Angel Hack Life”, Marc and Angel Chernoff have become go-to voices in the area of personal development, reaching tens of thousands of fans each day with their fresh and relatable insights. Now they're writing the book they wish they'd had when they needed it most.

GETTING BACK TO HAPPY reveals their strategies for changing thought patterns and daily habits to bounce back from tough times. Sharing never-before-published stories and advice, the book shows us Praise for GETTING BACK TO HAPPY: how to harness the power of daily rituals, mindfulness, self-care, and more to overcome whatever life throws our way—In order to become our "Through inspiring anecdotes and practical strategies, Angel & Marc lay best selves. out the step-by-step, revolutionary process that allowed them to move from despair and desolation to hope and positivity.” – Rachel Macy Marc and Angel Chernoff are the creators of “Marc & Angel Hack Stafford, New York Times bestselling author of Hands Free Mama, Life”, which was recognized by Forbes as "one of the most popular Hands Free Life, and Only Love Today personal development blogs." Through their writing, coaching, and live events, they've spent the past decade sharing proven strategies for getting "Marc & Angel have written an easy-to-follow, wonderfully empowering unstuck in order to find lasting happiness and success. They live in guide to help you cultivate a deep and pervasive sense of well-being and Florida with their young son. happiness. Their down-to-earth, practical advice will provide you with a strong, solid inner foundation for life's ups and downs, and support you to be resourceful in the face of any challenges you may face along the way." – Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Calling in The One and Conscious Uncoupling

BLOOM THE ENERGY THAT HEALS US Hitting Your Stride at Any Age or Stage The Secrets Behind Trustworthy Energy Medicine and How to Make It Work for You By Rich Karlgaard By Dr. Jill Blakeway

US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

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Japanese subagent: The English Agency Rights sold: Spain (Urano) UK/Commonwealth (Scribe) Rights sold: China (Beijing Mediatimes) Korea (Korean Economic Daily) In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Jill Blakeway shares her findings Taiwan (Prophet Press) of the ways energy medicine is being used and harnessed today.

As the Founder and Director of the YinOva Center, the largest Business leader and publisher of Forbes magazine Rich Karlgaard’s acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S., Dr. Jill Blakeway BLOOM is poised to hit a nerve among the countless people who is one of the most respected healers in the country. Energy medicine is feel that they’re lagging behind their peers, and that they haven’t the fastest growing area of alternative healing today, from acupuncturists, yet tapped into their professional or personal potential. reiki masters, “hands-on” healers, craniosacral therapists, to other practitioners who claim to promote healing by removing blockage and BLOOM makes a powerful argument: finding yourself and attaining true restoring balance to the unseen energy field surrounding the body, success is possible at any age. Rather than glorifying young, Mark otherwise known as “Qi.”

Zuckerburg-like prodigies, BLOOM calls upon us to allow ourselves to Dr. Blakeway is a scientist and skeptic at heart who has made it her life’s hit our strides our own way and in our own time. As the publisher work to try and understand and replicate the often-inexplicable energy of Forbes magazine and host of its most prestigious global business and work she does. She has aligned herself with the world’s top healers, thought-leadership conferences (and as a highly successful entrepreneur researchers, and practitioners of energy medicine to understand and apply who “bloomed” much later than many of his peers), Rich Karlgaard has this powerful healing force. Dr. Blakeway takes the reader on a journey the platform, passion, to make BLOOM the next paradigm-shifting title from hard science to the spiritual and back again in a never-ending quest in the vein of StrengthsFinder or The 4-Hour Work Week. to get to the heart of this powerful mode of healing.

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, is an entrepreneur, Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder of The YinOva Center and the author business thought leader, and the previous author of Soft Edge, Life 2.0, and of the bestselling Making Babies: A Proven 3 Month Program for Maximum Team Genius. Fertility and Sex Again: Recharging Your Libido.

THE YEAR OF KNOTS THE WEDGE Projects, Inspiration, and Daily Commitment on the Path to Becoming an Artist By Scott Carney

By Windy Chien US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Abrams (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available Through a narrative combining in-depth research with personal Edited MS available in Fall 2018 experimentation and investigating reporting, the goal of THE WEDGE is to offer readers all the tools they need to become Windy Chien is a former Apple exec turned artist whose inspiring stronger, healthier, happier, and more centered. 2016 Year of Knots project on Instagram (@windychien) was a hit with her followers and with national media, in which she learned a In his previous book What Doesn’t Kill Us, investigative journalist and new knot every day for a year. Her book THE YEAR OF KNOTS anthropologist Scott Carney proposed that human health doesn’t rest on will be a gorgeous mash-up of modern knot art meets stylish, how-to, the twin pillars of diet and exercised alone, but also on an equally inspirational titles like Julia Cameron’s The Artist's Way and Elle important third pillar: the environment. His new book THE WEDGE Luna's The Crossroads of Should and Must. homes in on this third pillar to explore the concept of “The Wedge,” that is, how someone can consciously alter their environment in order to At the heart of Windy's book is the simple yet powerful idea that a well- create predictable physiological and psychological outcomes. thought-out year is all you need to make an enormous creative leap. Windy's art looks nothing like macramé from the 1970's or even today's With Daniel Schmachtenberger of the Neurohacker Collective as his macramé renaissance. medicine man, Scott Carney will undertake a quest to hack his body and upgrade his consciousness through the environment. Windy is an artist on the rise with a wonderful career in the arts--her Instagram following has increased tenfold in less than a year and she's Along the way, through the concept of “The Wedge” readers will explore been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Martha Stewart Living, human sensation and health through the lens of psychedelics, lucid and Sunset. Knots are not her only medium. The classes Windy teaches in dreaming, tantra, heat, immune illness, light and sound, fear, anxiety, sex, San Francisco sell out immediately and she's becoming an in-demand hunger, and more. speaker on the topic of giving yourself permission to follow the creative path. Scott Carney’s work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Windy Chien makes art that activates space and crafts objects that Journalism and a 2016-17 Scripps Fellow at the Center for elevate the daily rituals of life. Following long careers at Apple/iTunes Environmental Journalism in Boulder, Colorado. What Doesn't Kill Us is and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Her work has his most recent book; other works include The Red Market and A Death on been covered by Wired, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and more. See Diamond Mountain. her website at www.windychien.com.

AGILE AND ADAPTIVE WAITING IN THE WINGS Making Wise Decisions during Stress, Uncertainty, and Change By Tiffany Haas & Jenna Glatzer

By Elizabeth Stanley US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Avery (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in February 2019 WAITING IN THE WINGS is the new, ultimate how-to guide in kickstarting (and maintaining) a career in the theater, by none Rights sold: China (CITIC) other than Wicked star Tiffany Haas and writer Jenna Glatzer Taiwan (ACME) WAITING IN THE WINGS will focus more on the practical than the We are always on, and never entirely turn off. Mindfulness alone artistic—ways to get an agent, what are your options outside of may not ameliorate these effects. What can we do? Broadway, pros and cons of getting Equity membership early in your career, job responsibilities and pay scales for actors, rehearsing for a show Our biological wiring is the same as it was 200,000 years ago, when we that’s already opened, and beyond. were cavemen (and cavewomen) and our daily decisions had to do with literal survival. Back then, we responded to stress with a brief surge of Mixed in with the professional dos and don’ts, comes Tiffany’s own adrenaline, and then retreated to our caves to recover. Today, we respond personal story of working on Broadway and touring around the country. to stressful decision-making with the same biological cocktail, and no longer allow our systems to properly recover. Tiffany Haas has been performing professionally for the past ten years, most notably starring as Glinda in both the Broadway production When Elizabeth Stanley began researching body-based trauma therapies and the national tour of the acclaimed musical Wicked. In addition to she started to understand her nervous system in a way that mindfulness being in demand nationally as an actress and singer, Tiffany is a beloved hadn't provided. She then combined nervous-system regulation judge and host for the Miss America pageant and leads a popular master techniques with mindfulness training and began teaching the combination, class for aspiring performers of all ages. called Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training, or MMFT, to her colleagues in the military and other high-stress professions. And now Liz Jenna Glatzer, is a respected and prolific author and ghostwriter, is ready to bring MMFT to readers with her book AGILE AND having worked on over twenty-eight books including the award-winning ADAPTIVE. The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez and Celine Dion: For Keeps, the authorized biography of the pop superstar. Elizabeth Stanley is a military veteran, an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, and the founder of the nonprofit The Mind Fitness Training Institute.

GETTING COMPLEX INVINCIBLE How To Scale Incredibly Abundant Talent to Solve The Heart of Peak Performance Intensely Confounding Problems By Leah Lagos By David Komlos and David Benjamin UK publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) UK publisher: Nicholas Brealey Books / Hachette (WE rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (*pending) GETTING COMPLEX will revolutionize how groups of people make decisions. The key to peak performance, says Dr. Lagos, is to recognize that the stress is not in your head, it’s in your body. Dr. Lagos’s unique The genesis behind GETTING COMPLEX was a chance meeting program offers a vital process for both letting go and achieving between the authors David Komlos and David Benjamin and Stafford optimal health and performance. Beer, a visiting professor at the Wharton School and an expert in cybernetics who developed a patented system that, when administered, In INVINCIBLE, Dr. Lagos reveals her unique 10-week, safe and guided organizations to make the best decisions possible in complex, natural, scientifically proven program to alter the body’s physical baseline changing environments. response to stress, working specifically with the most important muscle in your body—the heart—so you can fine-tune your reflexes and perform Komlos and Benjamin bought Beer’s patents and have spent the past at your maximum potential. The key to Dr. Lagos’s success is that she decade refining his system, and using it—to great success—In the recognizes the direct link between heart rhythms and stress, creating Fortune 100. The centerpiece of GETTING COMPLEX is a unique specific, clinically tested exercises and breathing techniques that allow you process called a Syntegration. This process brings together a group of to physically control your body’s physical response. specially selected people and then asks them to play various roles, which shift and change in time according to rules, producing a “mega-brain” that With INVINCIBLE, readers will gain the tools of elite athletes and can see every side of a problem and identify the best solutions for it. CEOs, enabling them to respond more flexibly to stressful situations, let go of negative thoughts and emotions, and ultimately be more focused David Komlos is CEO and David Benjamin is CTO/Chief Architect and confident under pressure. of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges Dr. Leah Lagos, Psy.D, B.C.B., works with some of the world’s top and clear the way for execution. business and sports professionals including Olympic athletes, CEO’s, international hedge fund executives. She is a Licensed Psychologist in the State of New York and Board Certified in Biofeedback.

UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION

THE WORLD OF LORE trilogy

#1: MONSTROUS CREATURES #2: WICKED MORTALS #3: DREADFUL PLACES

By Aaron Mahnke

US publisher: Del Rey / Penguin Random House (NA rights) To publish: October 2017; May 2018; October 2018

Material available: Final PDFs available for Books 1-2

Rights sold: Brazil (DarkSide) Poland (Zysk) Romania (Lifestyle) UK/Commonwealth (Wildfire)

A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore. Now a series on Amazon! Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of the podcast Lore, as well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore love of the mysterious and frightening. serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. He delves into Praise for the Lore podcast: harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation…perhaps. He visits the dimly lit rooms where “Truth can often be much scarier than fiction—something Mahnke séances take place, the European villages where gremlins make mischief, proves as he dives deep into the world of folklore and the darker side of even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted doll. history in a quest to root out the fragment of truth at the bottom of our fears.” – Entertainment Weekly In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our “Unlike so much horror that needs over-the-top viscera to scare you, this collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a podcast leans on history—folklore, myth, the stuff people once thought reflection of our primal fears, we kno that not every mystery has been was true—to tell its tales.” – The Atlantic explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear. As

Aaron reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore.

THE BEAUTY SUIT

How My Year of Religious Modesty Made Me a Better Feminist

By Lauren Shields

US publisher: Beacon Press (North American rights) To publish: May 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

A young feminist finds herself questioning why "hotness" has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives.

In a perfect storm of capitalist consumption, appropriation of feminist ideology, and misogyny, modern Western women are compelled to look a certain way—sexy—in order to be taken seriously. They must wear what Shields calls "The Beauty Suit," and wear it perfectly, just to be acknowledged. But is hotness a good substitute for equal wages, being heard in the boardroom, and safety from assault? Why is pleasing the male gaze a prerequisite—or even an acceptable stand-in—for empowerment? Lauren Shields holds BFAs in religious studies and television, film, In THE BEAUTY SUIT, Shields exposes this phenomenon for the and music production, and a Master of Divinity degree. She is seeking bait-and-switch that it is and looks for alternatives. Using stories ordination in the United Church of Christ, after serving as pastor for about her "modesty experiment"—for nine months, she stopped a small congregation in Campbell, California. She lives in San Jose wearing make-up, donned a head covering, and covered her arms and with her husband. legs—and delving into ideas and practices of modesty in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, Shields extracts the empowering aspects of each. While fully aware that religious modesty laws are often used to Praise for THE BEAUTY SUIT: constrain women, so, she demonstrates, does the contemporary Western beauty suit. "Shields takes a much-needed, nuanced look at expectations of feminine beauty and sexuality through the lens of the world's major religions and In a social media space oversaturated with beauty bloggers, lifestyle current events... Shields eschews easy answers to questions around sex, gurus, carefully curated Instagram feeds, and make-up tutorials, THE control, and harassment, which are more relevant than ever, given the BEAUTY SUIT shows us that religious modesty has something #metoo movement…” – Carrie Pitzulo, author of Bachelors and important to teach us about the next stage of feminism. Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy

JUSTIN.TV THE MASTERMIND

By David Goldenberg By Evan Ratliff

US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Edited MS available in July 2018

Set in the high-stakes tech scenes of Yale, Boston, and Silicon Valley, Rights sold: Japan (Hayakawa) JUSTIN.TV is a true story of brash ingenuity and intense rivalry, of Poland (Agora) Redbull vodkas and self-driving cars, of overnight celebrities and Romania (SC Publica) Ivy League geniuses, and of cut-throat investors and extraordinary UK/Commonwealth (Transworld) innovators. THE MASTERMIND is the bracing true story of a man who is In JUSTIN.TV, readers will follow Justin Kan, a brilliant 32-year-old quite likely the most prolific criminal kingpin in the world. risk-taker, and his team—Emmett Shear (the visionary), Kyle Vogt (the tech wizard), and Michael Seibel (the diplomat)—through the conception THE MASTERMIND begins with the savage murder of a female real and sale of two tech start-ups. The second start-up—originally called estate agent in the Philippines in 2012. It was a crime that baffled Justin.TV, featuring Justin streaming his life 24/7—would pivot into Philippine authorities but turned out to be connected to a dastardly Twitch, an enormous digital home for Internet personalities, professional criminal network that spanned the globe. Readers will follow author gamers, advertisers, developers, and hundreds of millions of video game Evan Ratliff on a breathless trail, as he discovers that the murder is linked fans across the world. to two American hit men, who in turn have been employed by a decorated American ex-soldier who has taken a job as the enforcer for an In the book, Justin Kan and Emmett Shear guide their startup through a international crime syndicate. The cartel is headed by a figure who jungle of competitors, dodging piracy suits and billionaires in suits looking Philippine federal agents refer to as “The Mastermind,” a 44-year-old to buy them out, first in Boston and then in San Francisco, where they South African named Paul Le Roux, whose empire spans continents and incite a titanic bidding war between Google and Amazon. The story of employs hundreds of innocent and not-so-innocent accomplices. Twitch’s creation and ascent explores how live-streaming has permanently changed entertainment, and our reality by enabling content creators to THE MASTERMIND homes in on a new kind of internet-enabled completely bypass traditional entertainment—cable, live venues, movie Cartel. It’s a tale of ambition and triumph, of corrupt entrepreneurs and theatres—and interact directly with live audiences online. the dark corners of the web, of rogue hit men and about the precarious balance of privacy and security, and the psychology of brilliant, twisted David Goldenberg writes a column for FiveThirtyEight and has written criminals. about technology, business, and sports for Wired, Slate, WSJ.com, Mental Floss, ESPN, NewYorker.com, and Business 2.0. Evan Ratliff is the co-founder of The Atavist magazine, working as its editor-in-chief since its founding in 2011. THE MASTERMIND is his first book.

HAPPINESS FOUND IN TRANSLATION TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS (previously titled FRISSON) By Kevin Alexander By Dr. Tim Lomas US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) UK publisher: Piatkus/ Hachette UK (UK & Comm rights) To publish: Spring 2019 US publisher: Tarcher / PRH (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 After covering food for nine years for Thrillist, journalist Kevin Alexander traveled to thirty cities in nine months to understand the From Europe’s leading expert on positive psychology and the head state of culinary America in 2016. of the Positive Lexicography Project comes Dr. Tim Lomas’s new book about how other languages can give us an untapped mine to The result is TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS—the social history probe for new ways of appreciating life, new types of pleasure and— of what has been, for the last decade, perhaps the greatest culinary most intriguingly—new routes to greater satisfaction, mindfulness moment our country has ever enjoyed. It was the golden age of dining, and joy. which is also beginning to come to an end.

From terms like hygge, Schadenfreude and bon vivant, that have entered the TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS is a rollicking, fun, important English language, to words like the Dutch queesting (to invite a lover into piece of cultural anthropology as it documents, glories in, and attempts to your bed for pillow talk) or the Brazilian Portuguese cafuné (the pleasure of make sense of this watershed period in America when we began to running your fingers through your lover’s hair), the world’s languages obsess, glorify, and fetishize food, just as we’d done with love in the provide a rich vocabulary of happiness, joy, desire, mindfulness and 1960s and money in the 1980s. And as labor costs, cook shortages, pleasure that is absent in English. immigration restrictions, unrealistic ambitions, and a glut of restaurants all attempting to do the same thing bring the zeppelin down, the culture In HAPPINESS FOUND IN TRANSLATION, Tim not only of American dining is about to undergo a profound change. And Kevin discusses many of the different “untranslatable” words in what will be a Alexander is the one who can tell you where we’re all going next. feast for language lovers, but he also examines what we can learn from them to become happier ourselves, appealing to fans of Eats, Shoot and Kevin Alexander is the James Beard Award-winning Writer at Large for Leaves and The Happiness Project. Thrillist. He lives north of San Francisco.

Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe’s leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East London’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (the preeminent postgraduate course in Europe). His first book, The Positive Power of Negative Emotions, has been published in Turkish, Spanish and Korean as well as in the UK by Tim’s regular publisher, Piatkus.

GRAY DAY TALKING FUNNY There Are No Hackers, Only Spies Comedians Tell Me About Their Lives, And My Life Too

By Eric M. O'Neill By David Steinberg

US publisher: Crown (North American rights) US publisher: Knopf (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2018

TALKING FUNNY is a tour de force through the greatest minds of As GRAY DAY dramatically shows, The Soviet Union collapsed in comedy, as David Steinberg blends his personal stories and a 1991 but that didn’t end the Cold War. It simply moved the selection of candid interviews with a cast of dozens of the best forces battlefield to cyber. in comedy—Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Chris

Rock, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and Robin Williams, to In 2011, Eric M. O’Neill was working in the FBI when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI’s name a few. top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades—giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and David Steinberg came into stardom in the late ‘60s and ‘70s when stand- betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, Eric up was still counter-culture, and often adversarial; when David’s Tonight found himself in a windowless, high-security cyber security department Show impressions of “Tricky Dick” became too popular, Richard Nixon’s reporting to the most devastating spy in the FBI’s history, Robert gang tried to kick the talk show off the air and had the FBI follow David Hanssen. Over the course of two months, Eric’s self-esteem and marriage around. It was an era when mobsters still prowled the streets of New unravel, and Eric questions the very purpose of his mission. But as York; when David’s stagemates Burt Reynolds, George Carlin, and Hanssen outmaneuvers the intelligence community, Eric learns the game Richard Pryor doused themselves in heroin, cocaine, and liquor to fuel of spy craft. He just has to outplay his teacher if he wants to win. their genius before careening off the rails.

A real-life drama of power, paranoia, and psychological Though chaos swirled around his closest friends, David managed to stay on his feet, and he went on to become an instrumental force behind the manipulation, GRAY DAY is a rare look behind the curtain, as this success of some of the most culture-shaping television of the next three page-turning episode opens up hot-button issues such as the evolution of decades. He guest-hosted The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 130 times the FBI, its relationship with Russia, present day cyber-attacks, and the (more than anyone else) and as an in-demand director he directed future of warfare. countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your

Enthusiasm. Eric M. O'Neill is the founder of The Georgetown Group, a premier investigative and security consultancy, where he specializes in David Steinberg is a comedian, director, and producer. He guest-hosted counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations. Eric was formerly an the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has FBI undercover operative, and he earned a JD from George Washington directed countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your University Law School. Enthusiasm.

THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS DANGEROUS WOMEN The Epic Untold Story of The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II By Gail Caldwell

By Katherine Landdeck US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Crown / Penguin Random House (WE rights) To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available DANGEROUS WOMEN is a series of stories that traces bestselling Edited MS available in Spring 2019 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell’s evolution as a

In the vein of Hidden Figures, The Girls of Atomic City, The Boys writer, but also pays tributes to off-the-grid, strong female influences in the Boat, and Unbroken comes THE WOMEN WITH SILVER in her life, be they real or imagined: from the literary (Woolf or Tess WINGS, a major new work of narrative nonfiction that tells the or Lily Bart) to the formative (her algebra teacher) and the familial. untold story of the America’s first female military pilots. At its heart, DANGEROUS WOMEN is a beautiful, literary tapestry to the powerful female heritage that exists behind all of us. The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, or the WASPs, were the first women ever to fly for the US military. These expert pilots flew Gail grew up within the shadows and shelters of the early 1970s women every type of plane the military had—and flew every mission, some movement—an era just barely beyond the world of Sylvia Plath, or, in extraordinarily dangerous, except for combat missions. Without the her words, “a living doll, everywhere you look/it can sew, it can cook/it WASPs, the United States would not have had enough combat pilots to can talk talk talk.” The stories that emerge begin there, with an abortion win the war, and yet these pilots faced enormous resistance, in Mexico three years before Roe v. Wade and a date rape in cowboy discrimination, and limitations every step of the way. They were forcibly country that could have happened to any girl, anywhere. disbanded before the war was won, and then erased from US history by the very military whom they so proudly served. Gail and her contemporaries are watching a generation of kids go off to college or have their kids of their own, and some of their inheritance is But the WASPs took none of this discrimination lying down. Their story liberating, some shortsighted. When she teaches, she’s often involved is an epic adventure brimming with audacity, inspiration, stunning with young women whose ideas of creativity and freedom are wonderful reversals, and tear-jerking triumphs. The WASPs prove that great, and vast, but also historically unearned, as youth is by nature. Sometimes sweeping social progress is rarely linear and that while battles may be lost, all she can give them is stories, and these stories feel important: The that is never cause to give up the war. THE WOMEN WITH SILVER “once upon a time” of memory and history, the dust bunnies of WINGS is an unputdownable, universal story about determined young experiences she’s tried to sweep into a life. This is a book “for all the women who just wanted to fly. girls.”

Katherine Landdeck is an Associate Professor of History at Texas Gail Caldwell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the Book Editor of the Woman's University, where the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Boston Globe for twenty years. She is the author of Strong West Wind, the archives are housed. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Emmy Award NYT bestseller Let's Take the Long Way Home, and New Life: No Instructions nominee, and the world's foremost expert on the history of the WASPs.

BLOOD RUNS COAL YOU’RE NOT LISTENING The Yablonski Murders and the War for the Soul of the United Mine Workers of America By Kate Murphy

US publisher: Celadon/Macmillan (North American rights) By Mark A. Bradley To publish: Fall 2019

US publisher: W. W. Norton (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: Brazil (Intrinseca) Edited MS available in Spring 2019 China (CITIC) Denmark (ArtPeople) France (Lattès) Sitting on the shelves next to the works of Jeffrey Toobin and Bryan Germany (Mosaik) Burroughs, BLOOD RUNS COAL is a groundbreaking Holland (Nijgh & Van Ditmar) investigation by award-winning historian Mark. A. Bradley into the Italy (Corbaccio) notorious but now-overlooked 50-year-old murders of the Yablonskis Korea (Book21) and the subsequent trial. Norway (Gyldendal Norsk) Poland (Marginesy) In May of 1969, fed up with recurrent mine disasters, stagnant wages, and Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito) a corrupt union bosses, Jock Yablonski announced his insurgent run to Romania (SC Publica) challenge the ruthless Tony Boyle as the UMWA’s president. Eight Spain (Penguin Random House Spain) months later, Yablonski, his wife, and his daughter were savagely Sweden (Volante) murdered in their home, blood soaking their beds. The book is much- Taiwan (Locus) needed and scrutinizing examination of a pivotal moment in American Turkey (Dogan) history, a region of the country still reeling from the loss of the coal jobs UK/Commonwealth (Harvill Secker) for which Yablonski died. In the spirit of Susan Cain’s Quiet comes a major new work entitled BLOOD RUNS COAL will take readers deep inside those momentous YOU’RE NOT LISTENING, which will forever change the way eight months of 1969, and the precipitous twinned decline of the coal you think about listening. industry and Appalachian region, recreating the hardscrabble, dangerous lives of Appalachian coal miners during the deeply divided decade of the Based on prodigious reporting and a brilliant survey of emerging science, 1960s. This will be an emotional rollercoaster taking readers to the heights Kate shows how listening is more important than ever—and yet, in this of courage and to the depths of depravity. age of technology and political division, more difficult than ever. In her accessible, polished style, she shows us how mindful listening can Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security expert transform your understanding of the people and the world around you. who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the Information Kate Murphy is a writer for The New York Times, The Economist, Agence France-Presse and Texas Monthly, among others. Security Oversight Office at the National Archives.

THE HUNT FOR HISTORY CURE-ALL Diagnosing the Modern Wellness Epidemic By Nathan Raab By Amy Larocca US publisher: Scribner (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 In THE HUNT FOR HISTORY, Nate takes us into the rarified world of historical documents in a major work of narrative Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (pending) nonfiction that is a fascinating detective story, a compelling portrait of a unique business and subculture, and a profound examination of In CURE-ALL, Amy offers a nuanced portrait of the weird world the role of history in our culture. of wellness, its engines, its strategies, and its snake oil salesmen. She has found that beneath the surface, wellness expresses something THE HUNT FOR HISTORY explores the business of buying and thorny and profound about the modern world. selling history. We learn how to authenticate an historical document and why provenance is not the signal issue it is in the art world, although Amy will peel back the layers of the wellness movement and reckon with forgeries are. How does pricing work? Who buys these documents—it’s its promises and profits. Her mission is to combine cultural anthropology not just institutions—and who sells them, and why? Despite working with and memoir to entertain and enlighten anyone who’s tried an acroyoga antique, if not ancient, materials technology has a role to play both in class, contemplated cutting red meat out of their diet, or investigated the conserving and authenticating materials and we’ll get a behind the scenes benefits of healing crystals. CURE-ALL will take readers into the look at how some of the best in the business ply their craft. communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green juice enemas. Throughout, Amy will hold a magnifying glass to Nathan Raab, recognized as one of the world’s most knowledgeable and alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions, and present her respected experts in historical documents, is the President of the Raab incisive assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our Collection, the sole high-end, old-fashioned, person-to-person dealer in (gendered, class-based, racialized) perceptions of care and self- historical documents still in existence in the United States. His column, improvement, and how it preys upon our unshakeable fear of the Historically Speaking, appears frequently on Forbes.com and his articles unknown. and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer among other publications. Amy Larocca is the Fashion Editor-at-Large for New York Magazine where she has identified trends and uncovered the machinations of the zeitgeist in award-winning narratives, essays, and profiles. Her journalism and essays have appeared in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Allure, Glamour, Esquire, The Times of London, and The London Review of Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the theatre director Will Frears, and their two children.

OSCAR WARS

By Michael Schulman

US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2021

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2021

Rights sold: Poland (Marginesy) Romania (SC Publica)

OSCAR WARS promises to be the definitive book on the Academy Awards, from a devotee and expert who has spent years covering the glitz, glamor, buzz, and drama for The New Yorker.

In an era that has seen Hollywood’s de facto governing body reckon with itself and its choices—see the #OscarsSoWhite callouts of recent years, and Moonlight’s Best Picture coup during the 2016 ceremony—Michael will guide readers through the most contentious Oscar races and the most surprising Oscars lore. At once cultural history and character-driven story, the book will examine the moments, stars, and themes that have cemented the awards at the center of our cultural conversation, ensuring that whatever the context, the Oscars represent more than the Oscars.

Michael Schulman is the previous author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep. A journalist at The New Yorker covering culture and the arts, he has written features, reviews, and over 50 “Talk of the Town” pieces. He is also the theatre editor of Goings On About Town, and an ongoing contributor to the New York Times.

UPCOMING CURRENT AFFAIRS / SCIENCE

TITLES

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS

New Discoveries Revealing a Lost World

By Steve Brusatte

US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic Steve Brusatte is a 34-year-old paleontologist on the faculty of the saga, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS will be a School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburg in Scotland. He has definitive and treasured account for decades to come. published widely in academic journals, discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs, and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, star went extinct. paleontologist and writer Steve Brusatte brings to life the lost and still enigmatic world of dinosaurs. Captivating and revelatory, the book traces Praise for THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS: the evolution of dinosaurs from their start as small shadow dwellers into the dominant species every wide-eyed child memorizes today: T. rex, “[C]aptivating…[t]his volume is a mix of memoir, chronicling Brusatte’s Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. Brusatte re-creates the dinosaurs’ personal odyssey from a child smitten by dinosaurs to a member of a peak eras, when thousands of species thrived, to when the winged and vibrant scholarly community, and first-rate science writing for the general feathered dinosaurs—the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds— public.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW emerged. The story dramatically draws to a close at the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s “Superbly illustrated with photos and art, this is popular-science writing history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.” at its best.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

THE BURNING SHORES Inside the Battle for the New Libya

By Frederic Wehrey

US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.

The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.

In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and history, Frederic Wehrey tells the story of what went wrong. An Arabic- speaking Middle East scholar, Wehrey interviewed the key actors in Libya and paints vivid portraits of lives upended by a country in turmoil: the once-hopeful activists murdered or exiled, revolutionaries transformed into militia bosses or jihadist recruits, an aging general who promises Praise for THE BURNING SHORES: salvation from the chaos in exchange for a return to the old authoritarianism. He traveled where few Westerners have gone, from the “Frederic Wehrey’s book is a masterpiece: an authoritative history of shattered city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolution, to the lawless Libya’s tragic descent into chaos and a riveting narrative. This is an Sahara, to the coastal stronghold of the Islamic State in Qadhafi’s essential story, too often clouded by tribal complexities and the partisan hometown of Sirte. He chronicles the American and international legacy of ‘Benghazi,’ and Wehrey is the ideal person to tell it. His deep missteps after the dictator’s death that hastened the country’s unraveling. knowledge of the country and of the American role there―political and Written with bravura, based on daring reportage, and informed by deep military―shines through on every page.” – Robert F. Worth, author of knowledge, THE BURNING SHORES is the definitive account of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil Libya’s fall. “A vividly detailed, elegantly written portrait of Libya in turmoil. A gifted Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for storyteller and accomplished scholar, Frederic Wehrey brings Libya’s International Peace. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New tragedy to life… A wonderfully readable and insightful book.” York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has consulted – Ambassador William J. Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment on Libya for the United Nations. for International Peace, and former Deputy Secretary of State

SPYING ON WHALES

The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

By Nick Pyenson

US publisher: Viking (North American rights) To publish: June 2018

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Full of rich storytelling and scientific discovery, Spying on Whales spans the ancient past to an uncertain future--all to better understand the most enigmatic creatures on Earth.

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection—yet there is still so much we don't know about them. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did Praise for SPYING ON WHALES: their ancestors return from land to the sea--and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human- "Spying on Whales is a delight on many levels. It's an up-to-date driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive? introduction to the science of whales, but it's also the odyssey of a scientist, from the fjords of Iceland to the driest deserts on Earth. Nick Pyenson's research has given us the answers to some of our biggest Whether he's tracing the fossil history of whales or describing the questions about whales. He takes us deep inside the Smithsonian's dissection of a giant whale heart, Pyenson tells his story with warmth and unparalleled fossil collections, to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid wit." – Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The desert in Chile, where scientists race against time to document the largest Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity fossil whale site ever found. " Part science, part memoir, and all about whales, Pyenson’s fantastic Nick Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the book is a must-read for any science and nature enthusiast." – Lydia Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Pyne, author of Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Washington, D.C. Famous Fossils

HEART A History

By Sandeep Jauhar

US publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (North American rights) To publish: September 2018

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Sandeep Jauhar—renowned cardiologist and bestselling author of Intern and Doctored—tells the story of the thing that makes us tick. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, HEART: A HISTORY takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in HEART: A HISTORY, it was only recently that we Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients that have changed the way we live. he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, is the director of the Heart Failure most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the author of the American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in critically acclaimed books Intern and Doctor and writes regularly for The Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a New York Times. He lives with his wife and their son and daughter on patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the Long Island. heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident.

WHY WE DREAM The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Reset (previously titled THE POWER OF DREAMS)

By Alice Robb

US publisher: Eamon Dolan Books (North American rights) To publish: November 2018

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FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS

By Heidi Blake By Jing Tsu

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Rights sold: Holland (Nieuw Amsterdam) Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency Japan (Kobunsha) Poland (Foksal) Rights sold: China (CITIC) Romania (RAO) Holland (Spectrum) UK/Commonwealth (Harper UK) Italy (Hoepli) Taiwan (Rye Field) Russia’s new tactics for gaining power over the West is the defining UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) geopolitical story of our time. BuzzFeed investigative reporter Heidi Blake reveals how the British government, clearly afraid of the THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS follows the bold and Kremlin, deliberately sidelined evidence of Russian involvement. cunning innovators who adapted the ancient Chinese character- th But these revelations were only the beginning of a much larger and based script to a 20 -century world defined by the West and its more important story. alphabet. It will tell the story of how China was able to transform itself from a marginalized country into one of the world’s most FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD will mine an extraordinary trove of powerful and ascendant nations source material and draw on fresh reporting to tell the full story of how, since 9/11, Russia refined and deployed the art and science of THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will chronicle the dramatic assassination as a surprisingly effective form of statecraft—and matched it events responsible for China’s unexpected linguistic and geopolitical seamlessly with formidable cyber powers, a sprawling international triumph. How China went from a crumbling empire to a capitalist propaganda machine, fearsome security, espionage and an organized juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution that the Chinese script has crime complex to advance their global influence—and how Western undergone during that same time period, in large part because the one governments failed to guard those living on home soil against the threat. literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists, mathematicians, and poets risked their careers and reputations, and sometimes their lives, The book will be novelistic, with the pace and propulsive power of a to tackle profoundly complex technological issues that opened the lines thriller—centering around the story of one dynamic high-rolling British of communication between the East and West and led to a new kind of fixer, Scot Young, whose connection to the oligarchs who fled to the UK mutual dependency. after Putin came to power brought him extraordinary wealth and danger. Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural Heidi Blake is BuzzFeed’s UK Investigations Editor. FROM RUSSIA historian of modern China at Yale University. She was born in Taipei, WITH BLOOD is her first book. Taiwan, and raised in New Mexico, USA.

SOLOMON’S CODE CHANGING GENDER Human Choice, Wisdom and Values in a World of Transgender History from the 19th Century until Now Artificial Intelligence By Susan Stryker By Olaf Groth & Mark Nitzberg US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Pegasus Books (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Serpent’s Tail)

Rights sold: China (CITIC) Set to be the definitive narrative of the transgender movement, CHANGING GENDER brings the vast process to life of the In SOLOMON’S CODE, internationally known experts on movement through character-driven story-telling and will ignite a artificial intelligence Olaf Groth and Mark Nitzberg delve into new understanding of gender itself. some of the most difficult questions of human morality and discuss how they must now be “solved” as we design AI and robots. For many people, the Transgender Movement first came to their attention earlier this year when 16 million viewers tuned in to watch Whether it is medicine, money, freedom or very personal decisions about Caitlyn Jenner’s 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. Since then it seems love, family and life, AI will be guiding, prompting and perhaps even as if there has been an explosion of attention to transgender celebrity forcing us to do “the right thing”. But, what is the right thing? And, even culture—from the New York Times’ “Transgender Today” profiles and if we could agree on what it was, would our answer be the same in New Amazon’s Emmy-winning series Transparent to the opening of the first York or in Shanghai? Or are these answers different depending on race, transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles. gender or other forms of diversity? SOLOMON’S CODE is a book that raises difficult, hard-to-answer questions, questions that we need to But as Susan writes, this moment didn’t come out of the blue. It is but a urgently consider given the speed of technological development but that thin veneer that rests atop more than a century of history. CHANGING no one seems to be asking. GENDER will weave incisive biographical portraits of activists, artists, doctors, scientists, politicians, lawyers, media-makers and everyday Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International citizens into the tapestry of a broader narrative of sweeping social Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World transformation. By the time readers finish CHANGING GENDER, Economic Forum, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard their view of the world they already live in will be utterly transformed. Business Review, among others. Susan Stryker is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker. She Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Human earned her Ph.D. in US History from University of California-Berkeley. Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley.

CHASING THE MOON FINDING NORMAL By Robert Stone and Alan Andres Sex, Empathy, and Taboo in the Wireless World

US publisher: Ballantine (North American rights) By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Harper UK) Edited MS available in Spring 2019

This smart, original, and provocative book will offer a first-of-its- Timed for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing missions, kind deep dive into our culture's changing perceptions of human CHASING THE MOON will tell a vivid, dramatic, and inspiring love, relationships, and sexual behavior. It will immerse readers in story of mankind’s greatest adventure. the lives of people whose experiences, attractions, and identities are now entering the mainstream consciousness. We think we know the history of the Space Race: the engineers who invented the machines that got us into space and the astronauts who went Building on the wild success of her "What It's Like" series for New York exploring there; the glory of missions like Apollo 13 and the infamy of magazine—see: “What It's Like to Date a Horse” or “What It's Like to events like the Challenger disaster. Yet as told in the pages of CHASING Date Your Dad”, both of which spent an entire week as the number one THE MOON, we see that the Space Race is not just a story about rockets and astronauts, but also a narrative of how the quest to land a articles on nymag.com—FINDING NORMAL will highlight the man on the Moon was intimately linked to and affected by the political, author’s pioneering work taking readers into rarely studied—and rarely social, and cultural scenes of the day. spoken about—subcultures.

Informed by cutting edge findings of psychologists and social scientists, Part of what will make CHASING THE MOON unique is that it tells and grounded in exhaustive reporting, this compulsively readable book this multi-faceted history through a combination of new first-hand will feature fascinating stories and timeless themes about people who are, eyewitness accounts and invaluable primary source archive materials and by choice or design, challenging once-immutable definitions of family, images, combining NASA’s enormous, yet neglected oral histories with relationships, and desire, stories that are likely to push readers to the discoveries found in government, television, and international news film limits of empathy. FINDING NORMAL will run the gamut from the and radio archives that have been forgotten or hidden for decades. curious to the shocking, revealing that despite the real differences that distinguish one person from another, we are all trying to know and be Robert Stone is an Academy Award nominated director who ourselves, to find our place in this world. Entertainment Weekly called “one of our most important documentary film makers”. Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a senior writer at New York Magazine, where she started the hugely successful What It’s Like series online. Alexa holds an Alan Andres is a frequent collaborative writer for works of history, MA in English from Melbourne University and an MA in Magazine business, and psychology. Journalism from New York University. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek.

SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE The Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, and the Rise of Trump

By Deborah L. Plummer By Rosie Gray

US publisher: Beacon Press (World English rights) US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

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Following in the bestselling tradition of Cornel West’s Race Matters In TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE, Rosie Gray and Beverly Tatum’s Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together does for Breitbart News what Gabriel Sherman did for Fox in The in the Cafeteria, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE will Loudest Voice in the Room and Brad Stone did for Amazon in The combine original research, analysis, storytelling, as well as offer Everything Store. ideas and strategies for creating healing among the races through the power of cross-racial friendships. In 2016, all roads led to Breitbart: Trump, Bannon, the alt-right, nativist populism, fake news, anti-globalism, and of course Milo Yiannopoulos. In SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE, Plummer argues that cross-racial What'll happen in 2017? Steve Bannon and Breitbart News were early, friendships have a unique power and an important role to play; they allow key, and consistent amplifiers of Trump's populist message as well as us to create new conversations about social change than can bridge the ruthlessly effective attackers of Hillary Clinton, and by the time Bannon racial divide, heal our society and make it stronger. In doing so, Plummer officially joined the campaign team, Breitbart was acting as a Pravda. offers readers a better understanding of how racial identity influences our Steve Bannon is now the closest advisor to President Trump, and behavior and thinking in everyday life. She looks at how these questions Breitbart News is starting to spearhead the same anti-establishment, anti- play out among different generations and why it is that we seem to be globalist movements in France and Germany. more able to see people of other races as colleagues or as spouses/lovers than we do as friends. With access to key characters and first-hand experience of many described events and those to come, journalist Rosie Gray will take Plummer is optimistic that we can reach across our divisions us to forge readers deep inside the secretive Breitbart world: its formation under friendships and lessen the obstacles between us, and this book shows us provocateur Andrew Breitbart; its maturation under a Goldman Sachs how. She’ll share stories and examples of people who have worked banker cum Biosphere 2 financier cum Riefenstahl-style documentarian; through the challenges of cross-racial friendships and developed ways of and its ongoing relationship to Trump and Bannon while it positions creating and maintaining common ground. itself at the vanguard of journalism, reporting on and swelling the global tide of populist-nationalism. Deborah Plummer is the vice chancellor and chief diversity officer for the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Rosie Gray has been publishing viral, news-breaking stories about the Health Care, with a Ph.D. in psychology. She was the founding director of Right for the past five years, commands a dedicated following of more Cleveland State University’s Master’s Degree Program in Diversity than 70,000 Twitter followers, and appeared on many liberal and Management. conservative programs, pod casts, and radio shows.

BREAK IT UP DEAR AMERICA The Secret History of America's Imperfect Union By America Ferrera By Richard Kreitner US publisher: Gallery / S&S (World English rights) US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 DEAR AMERICA is a moving, revealing, colorful, personal, and The fiery thesis of BREAK IT UP is simple: the United States did surprising collection of stories from 30-40 prominent Americans not and will never live up to its name. from a variety of fields (entertainment, the arts, business, politics) about their personal immigration experience and/or the experience The thirteen highly autonomous and distinct colonies could barely agree of their family, helmed by actress, producer, director, and activist to fight Great Britain together, so a detailed plan for uniting them into a America Ferrera, and anchored by her own powerful story about democratic republic was certainly not in the offing in 1776. And ever her parents’ immigrant roots in Honduras. since our country's founding, there have been two inextinguishable warring forces in the American mind: the impulse to preserve the Union, Examples of some of the people America would like to include—many and the desire to dissolve it. The states of the United States of America of whom she knows already—are: Salma Hayek (Mexico), Gloria Estefan have never been effectively united in the first place. (Cuba), Mila Kunis (Ukraine), Charlize Theron (South Africa), M Night Shyamalan (India), Emily Blunt (England), Arnold Schwarzenegger With a scholar's command, journalist's curiosity, and novelist's prose, (Austria), Mikhail Baryshnikov (Soviet Union), Colin Powell (Jamaica), Boston Globe contributor and Nation magazine editor Richard Kreitner will Arianna Huffington (Greece), Natalie Portman (Israel), John Leguizamo take readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, (Colombia), Iman (Somalia), Madeleine Albright (Czech Republic), revealing how powerful and persistent disunion movements are. This Wycklef Jean (Haiti), Rihanna (Barbados), Andy Garcia (Cuba), Jason Wu disunionist impulse found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as (Taiwan), Lupita Nyong'o (Kenya and Mexico), Junot Diaz (Dominican BREAK IT UP will show, the seduction of secession has never gone Republic), Kat Von D (Mexico), Nicki Minaj (Trinidad and Tobago), away. In the way Nancy Isenberg's White Trash recently struck a national Dayo Okeniyi (Nigeria), Liam Neeson (Northern Ireland), Kumail vein, or Colin Woodard's American Nations forced readers to think about Nanjiani (Pakistan), Mark Consuelos (born in Spain, raised in America regionalism, BREAK IT UP will help readers make fresh sense of our with a Mexican father and Italian mother), Maria Sharapova (Russia). fractured age. Examples of children of immigrants America would like to include are: Michelle Rodriguez (Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico), Alexis Bledel Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and his essays, reviews, and (Argentina and Mexico), DJ Khaled (Palestine), Julia Louis-Dreyfus criticism have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, and The Baffler. (France), Mindy Kaling (India), Chrissy Teigen (Thailand), Louis CK (Mexico), and Raquel Welch (Bolivia).

DOG IS LOVE CLIMAX The Science of Why and How Your Dog Loves You How Feminism Finally Made the Personal Political

By Clive Wynne By Linda Hirshman

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CLIMAX tells the story of all of the big names that have been circulating DOG IS LOVE will be the book readers will want to read, own, in relation to work place sex scandals: Roger Ailes, Al Franken, Garrison and give to their dog-loving friends and family as proof that “A dog Keillor, Matt Lauer, and, of course, Harvey Weinstein. But Hirshman is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” takes the narrative to its roots, exploring the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal as a fulcrum for the larger narrative. Hirshman will attempt to explain what Scientists have been studying dogs for over a century, and have come up happened. Using game theory and philosophical models, she suggests with many theories about what makes them special, most of which have that it was the political moment which led women to confront not only centered on the notion that dogs possess a unique form of intelligence. conservatives, but liberal men as well that developed into this game- Wynne was inclined to accept these theories until he did some intelligence changing feminist movement. experiments of his own. When he published his results, he was dubbed “the Debbie Downer of canine cognition” and he soon began the A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Linda research that led him to the conclusion that dogs have an amazing ability Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, to bond with other beings, a bond that he sees no reason not to call love. and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was In DOG IS LOVE, Wynne tells the story of how he and other scientists named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of have started cracking the code of love in dogs over the past decade. 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Clive D. Wynne is a professor of behavioral psychology at Arizona State University, where he also directs the Canine Science Collaboratory. DOG IS LOVE is his first book for a trade audience.

READING MINDS UNTITLED CRISPR PROJECT How Childhood Teaches Us to Understand People (previously titled BRAIN CHILD) By Kevin Davies

By Dr. Henry Wellman US publisher: Pegasus (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: Oxford University Press (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Kevin Davies takes readers inside the fascinating world of a new

gene editing technology called CRISPR, a high-powered genetic Rights sold: China (Cheers) Poland (Mamania) toolkit that enables scientists to not only engineer but to edit the DNA of any organism down to the individual building blocks of the genetic code. READING MINDS will be the first book to posit that in order to truly understand ourselves, we must first understand children, childhood, and the process by which children learn. If our genes are, to a great extent, destiny—as recent breakthroughs in science have taught us, what would happen if mankind could engineer Until now, many have theorized that the foundations of human nature lie and alter the very essence of our DNA coding? Millions might be spared within adult psychology and behavior, but, as Henry writes, “When our the devastating effects of hereditary disease, the agonizing impact of goal is to understand ourselves, then our children and our childhoods disease or the challenges of disability. But this same power, essentially, inform us better than our present selves.” Merging everyday intuitions, "playing God" raises major ethical questions and poses threats for potential misuse. For decades, these questions have lived exclusively in life stories, and contemporary science, READING MINDS will show the realm of science fiction but as Davies powerfully reveals in his new how the science of childhood theory of mind leads to a fundamentally book: this is all about to change. CRISPR gives scientists the life-altering new picture of human lives and human nature. Many (including Dennett, power to cure disease, eliminate entire species and to change the course Sacks, and Kahnemann) assume that plumbing the depths of adult of evolution. In a sweeping narrative, Davies tracks an engaging cast of thinking shows us human nature, a nature that then reflects back on characters from the scientists on the front lines of its research to the children. Dr. Wellman believes that’s backward. Children give the better patients whose powerful true stories bring the narrative movingly to illumination of human nature, a nature that applies to adults as well. human scale. In so doing, Davies sheds important light on the implications that this new technology will have on our everyday lives and Dr. Henry Wellman is the founder of the field of theory of mind, and in the lives of generations to come. the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He’s Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has World and former Editor-in-Chief at Cell Press. He received a published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of three books. Most psychology. recently, Davies co-authored DNA: The Story of the Genetics Revolution, with Nobel laureate Jim Watson and Andrew Berry.

PROJECT TOTAL RECALL By Steve Ramirez

US publisher: Riverhead Books/Penguin (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2020

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PROJECT TOTAL RECALL is a gripping exploration of the new frontier of brain science: optogenetics.

Memories are the windows to our lived-in realities and are what makes us who we are. During Steve Ramirez’s first year of graduate school at MIT in 2012, he and his colleague Xu Liu turned on a light (a literal light— that’s the “opto” in optogenetics) that would birth a new field of neuroscience: memory manipulation. Now, the stuff of sci-fi is becoming scientific fact every other week: we can shoot light into the brain to modulate neural activity and alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms; we can turn depression-related symptoms on and off; and, we can view how thoughts are formed in the brain and how they manifest in pathological conditions.

In the vein of The Emperor of all Maladies and Complications, PROJECT TOTAL RECALL is an ultimate insider’s account of cutting-edge neuroscience, which has launched a full-scale revolution in the way we treat and classify broken brains.

Steve Ramirez is an award-winning neuroscientist. He is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University.

UPCOMING FICTION

A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT

By Sally Franson

US publisher: Dial Press (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

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A brilliant young woman navigates a tricky 21st-century career— and the trickier question of who she wants to be—in this savagely wise debut novel in the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada.

Casey Pendergast is losing her way. Once a book-loving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a good story. Her best friend thinks she’s a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she’s just paying the bills—and she can’t help that she has champagne Praise for A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT: taste. When her boss assigns her to a campaign that pairs literary authors with corporations hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is both excited and “Bitingly funny… [Sally] Franson’s snappy debut nimbly skewers the skeptical. But as she woos her former idols, she’s shocked at how quickly high-flying world of advertising and romance in the age of social media… they compromise their integrity. Franson’s irresistibly flawed heroine holds her own as she strives to find honesty, meaning, and even love in a demanding world, resulting in an And when she falls in love with one of her authors, Casey can no longer addictive, escapist novel.” – Publishers Weekly ignore her own nagging doubts about the human cost of her success. By the time the year’s biggest book festival rolls around, it will take every “A high-spirited heroine loses herself in a vortex of modern striving in ounce of Casey’s moxie to undo the damage—and, hopefully, save her this debut novel… Come for the hilarious narration, stay for the own soul. whirlwind plot, luxuriate in the satirical gleam.” – Kirkus

Sally Franson was educated at Barnard College and the University of “Truly beautifully observed… a gorgeous treat. Sally Franson’s voice is Minnesota. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Best American addictive: whip-smart, biting, and clever.” – Jane Green, author of Travel Writing, and on NPR, among other places. Summer Secrets

THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS

By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

US publisher: Touchstone (North American rights)

To publish: May 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

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THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS follows the journeys of two Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is a Syrian-American author. Her short girls as they travel along identical paths across the Middle East stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The and North Africa, nearly 800 years apart in time. Saturday Evening Post, PANK Magazine, Mizna, and elsewhere.

It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. Her mother decides to move Nour and her sisters from New York Praise for THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS: back to Syria to be closer to their family. But the country Nour’s mother once knew is changing, and when a shell destroys Nour’s “[An] ambitious debut… Joukhadar plunges the Western reader full house, she and her family flee as refugees in search of safety. More force into the refugee world with sensual imagery.” than 800 years earlier, Rawiya is 16 and lives with her impoverished – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW mother. Restless, she leaves home to seek her fortune and becomes an apprentice to a famous mapmaker. Rawiya embarks on an epic “With clear, exquisite prose, Joukhadar unspools a brightly imagined journey across the Middle East and the north of Africa where she tale of family and grief, mapmaking and migration.” encounters ferocious mythical beasts and epic battles. – Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses

THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS is a moving and lyrical story “[B]eautiful and lovely and eye-opening.” – Chris Bohjalian, of finding one’s way home amid grief and unimaginable loss. bestselling author of The Flight Attendant

THE CONCRETE

By Daniel Abbott

US publisher: Ig Books (World English) To publish: May 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

In the spirit of Moonlight, Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings, and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude comes the story of an entangled community set in the southeast side of Grand

Rapids, MI, centering around the lives of two foster brothers with secret intersecting histories, who struggle to break out from the circle of the past, and discover that the past isn't so willing to let them go.

Set on the gritty southeast side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, an impoverished area known for drugs and violence, The Concrete centers around the home of Jackson and Mae Carter, foster parents of two boys―Isaac, who is white, and Miles, who is black―who share dark and intersecting histories that neither one is aware of. As the boys try to escape the grim reality of the violent streets―i.e. “the concrete”―in different ways―Isaac through basketball, Miles though music―the novel Praise for THE CONCRETE: shifts back and forth in time, in the process revealing the story of an entangled community plagued by trauma and death, trying to confront the “[T]he introduction of a fresh, exciting, and important voice to the ghosts of its past, and seize a better life. American literary landscape. Filled with uncommon insights into the human heart, this gritty, brave, redemptive novel tells truths we all need A multi-point-of-view work of realistic and often graphic literary fiction, to hear.” THE CONCRETE is a striking debut that grapples with the effects of – Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women and Wings and The childhood trauma on teens, lost dreams, human sexuality, and the Problem with Murmur Lee difficulties of marriage. “Daniel Abbott writes with authority about the hardscrabble realities of Daniel Abbott is a former United States Marine and JUCO basketball inner city life. With unflinching honesty, he explores those souls trapped player from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his BA from Grand in darkness and their sometimes heroic struggle to recapture the light.” Valley State University and his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine – Clint McCown, author of Haints Arts. THE CONCRETE marks his debut. “[A] striking and extraordinary debut.” – Sophfronia Scott, author of All I Need to Get By and Unforgivable Love

WHEN WE DISAPPEAR

By Lise Haines

US publisher: Unbridled Books (North American rights) To publish: June 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

A masterful account of how people lie to themselves and to each other, and at the way a buried secret can eat away at love and purpose, WHEN WE DISAPPEAR bears comparison to the work of

Jennifer Haigh, Mona Simpson and Elizabeth Strout. Swinging family in crisis, yet detached from reality; and, ultimately, a very human story.

WHEN WE DISAPPEAR is written from two perspectives: that of Mona, a young woman growing up in Chicago, and that of Richard, her father. Mona’s parents are unable to cope in the material world. Elizabeth, a dedicated but struggling artist, tries to pay the bills through dead-end jobs. Richard, an insurance salesman, leaves Chicago to take a well-paying position but loses his commissions to a fraudulent boss. The result is that

19-year-old Mona, a talented photographer, has to become the rock of the family for her younger sister, Lola, even as she begins her own, tentative Praise for WHEN WE DISAPPEAR: exploration of the world, while the family grows poorer and poorer. " This is a moving piece of fiction from a writer at the zenith of her At the heart of the family’s struggle lies a terrible event that occurred impressive powers. I loved it." – Steve Yarbrough when Mona was a little girl, a day of betrayal that haunts Richard, propelling him away into a world of fantasy, and that wounds Elizabeth, "Lise Haines is a novelist of great empathy and penetrating insight." sending her into a cocoon of denial. – Tom Perrotta

Lise Haines is the author of In My Sister’s Country, Small Acts of Sex and “[A] remarkable novel that does what only great fiction can do: it Electricity, and, Girl In The Arena. Haines's short stories and essays have explores the profound interaction between our individual inner lives and appeared in a number of literary journals including Ploughshares, Agni, the outer world, particularly that most immediate and influential corner PostRoad, and The Barcelona Review, and she was a finalist for the PEN of the world, family… When We Disappear reveals her at the peak of her Nelson Algren Award. prodigious power.” – Robert Olen Butler

THE GARDEN PARTY (formerly titled ABOUT TIME)

By Grace Dane Mazur

US publisher: Random House (World English rights) To publish: July 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

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A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in a sparkling social satire set over the course of a single day.

In Brookline, Massachusetts, dinner in the garden is bringing together two families on the night before the wedding that should unite them. The families are not unfriendly but they are shy and leery of each other. The Barlows are a Wall Street Journal-reading family of lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, corporations and war crimes, golf and tennis. The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals, including a biologist who has studied why scorpions glow in the dark; a social activist who always needs rescuing; and a historian of the cooking of ancient Babylonian who is Praise for THE GARDEN PARTY: trying, while hosting the dinner party, to figure out whether Time is really shaped like baklava. “This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is The novel begins with the Cohens brewing morning coffee and unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.” considering the work they will have to do to prepare for the dinner, and it – Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs ends, late that very night, after a complicated series of fiascoes and miracles. Over the course of the day, it becomes clear that neither family “In her feast of a novel, delicious with secrets and longings and the is more eccentric than the other. Featuring an ensemble cast of mischief of both angels and demons, Grace Dane Mazur gives the reader exceptionally vivid characters ranging in age from three to the early the best seat at the table on a most fateful night.” nineties, Grace Dane Mazur's wonderfully lyrical novel is an irresistible – Christopher Castellani, author of All This Talk of Love portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, and the power of love.

“This is a wonderful book… [I]t leaves the reader with the remarkable Grace Dane Mazur is the previous author of Silk: Stories, Trespass: A sensation that happiness is not in contradiction with intelligence.” Novel, and the nonfiction work, Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the – Joan Silber, author of Fools and Ideas of Heaven Imagination.

THE LAST TIME I LIED

By Riley Sager

US publisher: Dutton (North American rights) To publish: July 2018

Material available: Edited MS available

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From the bestselling author of Final Girls, THE LAST TIME I LIED follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.

Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak The Last Time I Lied is the second thriller from Riley Sager, the out of the cabin in the dead of night. pseudonym of an author who lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Riley's first novel, Final Girls, was a national and international bestseller that has been Now a rising artist in New York, Emma turns her past into paintings— published in more than two dozen countries. massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Praise for THE LAST TIME I LIED: Francesca implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to find out what really “Breathtaking—brightly written, scalpel-sharp, and altogether inspired. happened to her friends. This swift, red-blooded thriller set my pulse thrumming.” – A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.

FAMILY TRUST THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER (previously titled PEOPLE OF MEANS) By Hazel Gaynor By Kathy Wang US publisher: William Morrow (World English rights) US publisher: William Morrow (North American) To publish: October 2018 To publish: October 2018 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Edited MS available Edited MS available in June 2018

A privileged Chinese-American family in Silicon Valley is forced to From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who contend with the truth of their own lives in this clever and Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and perceptive family drama. the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. When Stanley Huang is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his family is thrown into turmoil. While his children are concerned for their father, they can’t help but wonder what his death will mean for their own futures. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I For his son Fred, a few million would soothe the pain caused by years of am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” professional disappointment. Stanley’s daughter, Kate, is a middle manager with one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious tech companies. 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne She manages the capricious demands of her world-famous boss and the Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. needs of her two young children while supporting her would-be When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, entrepreneur husband. Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the Stanley’s second wife, Mary Zhu, has devoted herself to making her friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as husband comfortable in every way—rubbing his feet, cooking his favorite George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures dishes, massaging his ego. But lately, her commitment has waned—caring his heart. for a dying old man is far more difficult than she expected. Then there’s Linda, Stanley’s first wife, who has worked hard for decades to ensure the 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda family’s financial security. Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her As Stanley’s death approaches, the Huangs are faced with unexpected baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into challenges that eventually lead them to discover what they most value. Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, FAMILY TRUST is a compelling tale of cultural expectations, career living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best. courage and love.

Kathy Wang is from Northern California and is a graduate of UC Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Berkeley and Harvard Business School. She lives in the Bay Area with her of four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home. husband and two children.

LEADING MEN AERIALISTS Stories By Christopher Castellani By Mark Mayer US publisher: Viking (North American rights) To publish: February 2019 US publisher: Bloomsbury (North American rights) To publish: February 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 LEADING MEN reimagines a missing week in Tennessee Williams’s life, when he and his lover and muse – the charming, In Mark Mayer’s award-winning debut collection (these deft and carousing New Jersey-born sailor named Frank Merlo – were daring stories have won the Michener-Copernicus Prize), lonely spending the summer of 1953 in Italy. misfits yearn for connection in a world gone slightly askew.

Based on Williams’ voluminous diaries and correspondence with friends, A young boy attempting to navigate his parents’ divorce finds a mentor Castellani retraces the events from July 28th – August 7th of 1953, during in his mother’s new best friend, a tough-talking female bodybuilder. A which Williams mentioned his encounter with an alluring Swedish mother retired circus elephant dies, inspiring his devoted caretaker to arrange a and daughter in Portofino. suitable funeral, with inadvertently ghoulish results. A navy recruit grapples with the impending loss of his childhood and girlfriend by Like Colm Toibin’s The Master, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, and Jess building an exact replica of his neighborhood in code. From a telepathic Walters’ Beautiful Ruins, LEADING MEN is a tour de force that navigates deaf-mute teen at Niagara Falls to a basement-dwelling, revolution- the space between the facts of famous lives and what can be imagined of plotting Jewish Communist outside of Denver, Mayer’s stories illuminate the lives of small scale American spectaculars, rendering their attempted their private worlds. Its setting amid the sparkling cities of 1950s Italy will acts of daring and feats of strength with humor, generosity, and transport readers to a brief, shining moment where brilliant minds, uncommon grace. beautiful faces, and legendary talent converged.

Mark Mayer is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, with an Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels published by MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching- Algonquin Books: All This Talk of Love, a New York Times Editors’ Writing Fellow and won the Prairie Lights Prize for both fiction and Choice; The Saint of Lost Things; and A Kiss From Maddalena, winner of the poetry. He has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Fine Massachusetts Book Award. He is also the author of The Art of Perspective: Arts Work Center, and Whiting Foundation Writer’s Aid, among many Who Tells the Story, part of the Graywolf Press series on the craft of others. His fiction has won honors from Granta, Glimmer Train, and writing, edited by Charles Baxter. Castellani is the artistic director of the Playboy. creative writing center GrubStreet in Boston and is on the fiction faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

WALKING ON THE CEILING IT’S HOT IN THE HAMPTONS By Aysegul Savas By Holly Peterson

US publisher: Riverhead Books (World English) US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018

WALKING ON THE CEILING is an urgent meditation on who Hot on the heels of her sleeper summer smash It Happens in the gets to tell what story and why, of the migrations large and small Hamptons, NYT-bestselling author Holly Peterson returns to Long that define who we become, and the pain and pleasure of finding Island for more gossip, more intrigue, more romance, and more home in unexpected places. It’s a novel about memory, storytelling, housewives behaving badly in IT’S HOT IN THE HAMPTONS. and the places we can’t escape—both real and imagined. Caroline married for money but she still pays for it every day. Caroline After her mother’s death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small and her husband are East Hampton locals, transplanted to Manhattan apartment in Paris. Her early weeks in Paris pass in a haze of grief and and a life of cosmopolitan luxury when Eddie strikes it big in finance. dislocation, but one day, Nunu finds herself alone with the famous writer City life sours their marriage and inflates Eddie with greed, while Caroline M., whose Istanbul novels she deeply admires. As they walk along the longs to return to the simple pleasures of her small seaside hometown. As Seine, they begin to talk and the night passes quickly, full of the warmth summer approaches, Caroline sets out for East Hampton to ready her and pleasure of deep conversation. What develops, over more long walks family’s second home for the season, though her motives run deeper than and an intimate email correspondence, is an unusual friendship built on a what lies on the surface. longing they both try to but cannot name. Nunu tells M. of Sunday fish dinners with her mother on the shores of the Bosphorus, of Sufi meetings Caroline finds a kindred spirit in her friend Annabelle, a fellow restless with her boisterous aunts, of the idyllic small town where her housewife in the Hamptons for the summer. Together, the two women grandparents lived and where her mother grew up, of the walks through decide to live up to the danger of their fourth decade, and each deems the forest her mother would take as a girl with her poet neighbor Akif. herself ready for a hot and heavy beachside fling. Their pact to carry out But as these moments rise to meet her, Nunu also stirs up deeper summer affairs promises to spice up the annual mundane family vacation, memories that are difficult and painful—her mother’s silence and anger, and to exact a measure of sweet revenge on their cruel, negligent her father’s absence, the growing unrest in her beloved hometown—and husbands. As temperatures rise, Caroline becomes consumed with as the connection to M. grows, so does her fear of revealing too much. thoughts of her first love—a man mysteriously lost at sea decades before, but something in the salty Hamptons air suggests that his disappearance Aysegul Savas grew up in Turkey and Denmark. Her work has appeared might not be so complete after all… in Guernica, Pleiades, Your Impossible Voice and elsewhere, and was shortlisted for the Glimmer Train Fiction Prize and the Graywolf Emerging Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Holly Writers Award. She has an MFA from the University of San Francisco. Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing She lives in Paris and teaches at CELSA, the journalism and editor for Newsweek. communications faculty of the Sorbonne.

TELL ME EVERYTHING THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS By Cambria Brockman By Anissa Gray

US publisher: Ballantine (North American rights) US publisher: Berkley (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018

Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann) THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY Israel (Matar) GIRLS is ultimately about the bonds of family, and how sometimes Poland (Foksal) the same relationships that hold you up can also be ones that ties

you in knots. A debut psychological thriller by Cambria Brockman, TELL ME

EVERYTHING is set at an elite college in an isolated New England The Butler sisters have gone through their share of trials in life, but town and chronicles the shifting friendship of six students who nothing has prepared them for the literal trial that has totally upended maintain their alliance until one of them is murdered. their lives. Althea, the oldest sister and substitute matriarch of the Butler family, has always been a force to be reckoned with, and younger Gemma is an insecure theater major from London; John, tall and sisters Viola and Lillian have alternately appreciated and chafed at her handsome, is a descendant from a wealthy New England family; Khaled is strong will. But the sisters are shocked to learn that Althea and her a prince from Abu Dhabi ,Max, John’s cousin, is pre-med; and Ruby, an husband have been gradually defrauding their tight-knit community for art history major, is the beautiful girlfriend of John. Most importantly, years, and the bill for their scam has finally come due. there’s Malin, the narrator of this provocative, and gripping, novel. As Althea awaits sentencing, Viola and Lillian must come together in Malin is an expert at hiding a part of her that is deeply menacing while she the house they all grew up in to care for Althea’s two troubled teenage uses her extraordinary, laser-sharp talent for detecting the vulnerabilities daughters. But years of estrangement and distrust have marked the and weaknesses of others. She didn't come all the way from Texas to Butlers, and even Lillian’s top of-the-line renovation job can’t erase the Maine's "little ivy" Hawthorne College for the drinking or the boys. She childhood scars that haunt their old home. As the Butlers deal with the came to continue her immaculate academic record, get accepted to law troubles of the past, will they be able to do better for the next school, and, most of all, ease her parents’ grief over a son they lost far too generation? soon. But her newfound friends have secrets of their own. And Malin doesn’t realize until it’s too late that she’s still driven by demons she Anissa Gray is an Emmy and DuPont award-winning journalist at thought had died with her brother so many years ago. CNN Worldwide, responsible for helping to guide coverage of some of the most consequential stories of our time. She began her career at Cambria Brockman’s award-winning wedding and portrait photography Reuters as a reporter, based in New York, covering business news and company, Cambria Grace, is followed by 60k Instagram users including international finance. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family. Martha Stewart and Grace Bonney of Design Sponge. TELL ME EVERYTHING is her first novel.

LITTLE TWITCH THE SWEETEST FRUITS

By Erika Swyler By Monique Truong

US publisher: Bloomsbury (North American rights) US publisher: Viking (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019

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LITTLE TWITCH is a visionary novel about female drive that THE SWEETEST FRUITS is an ambitious and ingeniously questions how women’s lives have changed, what progress looks imagined story of identity, revelation, and the power of words. It like, and what it really means to sacrifice for the greater good. Most circles the life of the late 19th-century writer Lafcadio Hearn, whose of all, it’s about the electric combination of ambition and wonder tale is related by the four women who played a pivotal role in his that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. unique, itinerant career.

Famous in Europe and America for his interpretations of Japanese ghost Nedda Papas is an 11-year-old girl obsessed with space, science, and stories, Lafcadio was the author of more 20 books of astonishing range— becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in a small Florida Space Coast town, from Creole cooking to stories of the supernatural in Mozambique. A Nedda’s dreams are within reach, if she can just grow up fast enough. shape-shifter who reinvented his identity throughout his travels, he Theo, the scientist father Nedda idolizes, is trapped in his own traversed four continents and renamed himself on each one. obsessions. Laid off from NASA, living in a marriage consumed by mourning their stillborn child, Theo’s genius turns to the dangerous Who was this itinerant, elusive man? THE SWEETEST FRUITS dream of holding on to his living daughter’s childhood for just a little introduces him in the eyes of the four women who were Lafcadio’s longer. The result is an invention which alters the fabric of time and intimates and inspiration in each of his incarnations. Each tells her own consumes the entire town of Easter, FL. story of her life with Hearn, all of them as full of wanderlust and transformation as Lafcadio himself. Why these women relate their When Nedda’s best friend is trapped in the fallout from her father’s stories—at what pivotal moment in each of their lives do they offer up machine, she must confront the father she loves and his secrets, the their memories—is the axis on which the novel turns. Each has a ramifications of which will alter her life, but the entire world and time different motivation: to justify abandonment, to establish legitimacy, to itself. But Nedda has an unexpected ally in Betheen, her estranged preserve honor, or simply to love him. Though entirely distinct in their mother, who may see Nedda more clearly than anyone else. Intertwined race and geography, they share a defining trait: each is a gifted storyteller. with the story of the Chawla, an interplanetary space vessel searching for humanity’s next home, LITTLE TWITCH confronts the galactic Monique Truong has earned many writing awards and honors, consequences of growing apart and growing up. including the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship; the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; the Asian American Literary Award; and a Erica Swyler is the author of THE BOOK OF SPECULATION, her Guggenheim Fellowship.

debut novel.

LOVELOCK

By Heather Young

US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Partial MS available Edited MS available in June 2018

Rights sold: France (Belfond)

Set in the Great Basin, the cradle of humanity’s history in the Americas, LOVELOCK will examine the bonds between mothers and sons, sons and fathers, and the debts we owe our dead, both recent and distant.

On Pi Day, the math teacher in the small Nevada town of Lovelock turns up burned to death in the middle of the desert. After the murder investigation stalls, the town is quick to forget the quiet, unassuming man who moved to Lovelock only seven months before. But history teacher Claire, one of the few people who befriended him, starts to wonder: why would he leave a professorship at the University of Nevada to teach middle school math in a dead-end place like Lovelock? What was he running from? What was he hiding? And what about her student, the misfit boy who found the body but won’t tell anyone what he was doing out in the sagebrush in the middle of the night?

As Claire probes the mystery of Adam Merkel’s life and horrifying death, she ends up reconsidering her own life, including the tragedy that forced her to abandon her dream becoming an anthropologist and her complicated relationships with the men she loves: her 12-year-old son, her deadbeat ex-husband, and, most of all, the father she adores but can’t forgive.

Heather Young is the previous author of The Lost Girls, which is currently nominated for the Edgar Award.

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